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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm3

medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
7.8 high
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SUSE
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
7.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-NCURSES-5423145
  • published 14 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2023
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Introduced: 14 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29491 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 ncurses to version 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses package and not the ncurses package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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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