HIGH 7.8 Microsoft
CVE-2023-29491
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.
Microsoft Security Update 2023-Apr: 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.
Affected Products
- cm1 ncurses 6.4-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
- cbl2 ncurses 6.4-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29491
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29491
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2023-04-11 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 ncurses 6.4-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 ncurses 6.4-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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