DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29491

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-29491
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Upstream
Published
2023-04-14T01:15:08Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:28:36.336030Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2

Affected versions

6.*

6.2+20201114-2
6.2+20201114-2+deb11u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.4-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.4-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.4-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}