Important: ncurses

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2023-29491)

Affected Packages:

ncurses

Issue Correction:
Run yum update ncurses to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
    ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
    ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
    ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
    ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
    ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
    ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  
    ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  
    ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  
    ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  
    ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  
    ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  
    ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-29491

Mitre: CVE-2023-29491