CVE-2023-29491High· 7.8▾ Twilightncurses 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…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 42.9 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.9%
0.9% → 0.9%
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.
ncurses < 6.4Upgrade past the affected range:
ncurses 6.4Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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