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OS X update for ncurses (CVE-2022-29458)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

Published

Apr 18, 2022

Added

Nov 29, 2022

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

Solution

apple-osx-upgrade-13

References

CVE-2022-29458
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-29458
CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2022-33796
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-33796
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488

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