CVE-2023-29491 Information

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.

Reference

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commit;h=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56