gsd-2023-29491
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:20
Details
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.
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CVE-2023-29491


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