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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · invisible-islandNVD modified 2026-10-14 23:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 25
- http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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://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://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 Mailing List
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch
- http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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/[email protected]/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/
- 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://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 Mailing List
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html