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HistoryApr 14, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2023-29491

2023-04-1400:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org
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cve-2023-29491
ncurses
setuid application
memory corruption
terminfo database
environment variable

8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

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.