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CentOS Linux: CVE-2023-29491: Moderate: ncurses security update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2023-29491: Moderate: ncurses security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/14/2023
Created
09/20/2023
Added
09/20/2023
Modified
11/08/2023

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)

  • centos-upgrade-ncurses
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-c-libs
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-c-libs-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-compat-libs
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-libs-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-ncurses-term

References

  • CVE-2023-29491

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