vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-29491: Out-of-bounds Write
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Apr 14, 2023 | Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 14, 2023
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-ncurses
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