CVE-2023-29491

Description

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.

Patch Available

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Score

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Publish Date

April 13, 2023

Modified Date

November 20, 2025

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