vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-6099-1 (CVE-2023-29491): ncurses vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Apr 14, 2023 | May 24, 2023 | Aug 18, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 14, 2023
Added
May 24, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 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.
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncurses6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncursesw5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncursesw6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32tinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32tinfo6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncurses6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncursesw6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64tinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64tinfo6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncurses6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncursesw5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncursesw6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtinfo6ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncursesw5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32tinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-bin
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