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Ubuntu: USN-6099-1 (CVE-2023-29491): ncurses vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-6099-1 (CVE-2023-29491): ncurses vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/14/2023
Created
05/24/2023
Added
05/24/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

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)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncurses6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncursesw5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncursesw6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32tinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32tinfo6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncurses6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncursesw6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64tinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64tinfo6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncurses6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncursesw5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncursesw6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtinfo6
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncursesw5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32tinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-bin

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