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CVE-2023-29491

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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.

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CVE-2023-29491

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2023-29491

n/a

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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[
  {
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "product": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "n/a"
      }
    ]
  }
]
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CVE-2023-29491

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Event
#24338 · Revision 1
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