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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2023-29491

High
7.8/10

Summary

The package ncurses in all versions, 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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published