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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 ↗
- http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56 ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/ ↗
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843 ↗
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844 ↗
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ ↗
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html ↗
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html ↗