CVE-2023-29491

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29491
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-29491.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-29491
Downstream
Related
Published
2023-04-14T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-07T04:18:35.703395Z
Summary
[none]
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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/29xxx/CVE-2023-29491.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "6.4"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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
79b9071f2be20a24c7be031655a5638f6032f29f
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "6.4"
        }
    ]
}

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
v6.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-29491.json"