CVE-2022-29458

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29458
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-29458.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-29458
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-04-18T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-06-26T03:54:45.705375285Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convertstrings in tinfo/readentry.c in the terminfo library.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29458.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "6.3"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
deb0d07e8eb4803b9e9653359eab17a30d04369d
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "CPE_STRING"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "6.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.3-NA"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.1
v4.2
v5.*
v5.0
v5.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.9
v6.*
v6.0
v6.1
v6.2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-29458.json"