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ncurses — security advisory
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.
- Products
- ncurses
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.3_p20211120-r2, 6.3_p20220521-r1, 6.3_p20221119-r1, 6.4_p20230424-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-29491
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2023-29491
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.3_p20211120-r2
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.3_p20220521-r1
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.3_p20221119-r1
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.4_p20230424-r0
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.4_p20230424-r0
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.4_p20230424-r0
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.4_p20230424-r0
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.4_p20230424-r0
ncurses
Fixed versions: 6.4_p20230424-r0
Complete source record
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