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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-29491: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-29491: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/14/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

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(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ncurses

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