UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29491

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29491

    Published: 14 Apr 2023Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-29491
    Aliases:
    USN-6099-1

    Summary:

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-29491, https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20230408, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6099-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29491

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ncurses

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm3?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm3

    Affected versions

    5.9+20130608-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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