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CVE-2023-29491
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-04-14T01:15:08.570 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:50:12.777

Summary

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

gnu — ncurses

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References

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