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.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected products
References
- MAILING_LISThttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4
- MISChttp://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
- MAILING_LISThttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11
- MISChttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
- MAILING_LISThttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/
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