vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-29491: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2023-2096)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 14, 2023
Added
Jul 4, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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)

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