CVE-2023-29491

Name
CVE-2023-29491
Description
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4
MISC https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5
MISC http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commit;h=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/
CONFIRM https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
CONFIRM https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
CONFIRM https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
cve@mitre.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ncurses >= None < 6.4

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
ncurses 3.14-main 6.2_p20210612-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
ncurses 3.17-main 6.3_p20221119-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
ncurses 3.16-main 6.3_p20220521-r1 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed
ncurses 3.15-main 6.3_p20211120-r2 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed