vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-29491: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2023-1778)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 2023-04-14 | 2023-07-20 | 2025-05-21 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2023-04-14
Added
2023-07-20
Modified
2025-05-21
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
amazon-linux-upgrade-ncurses
References
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