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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-29491: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2023-2096)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-29491: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2023-2096)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/14/2023
Created
07/04/2023
Added
07/04/2023
Modified
07/04/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-c-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-compat-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-term

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