Security Advisory

CVE-2023-29491

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-04-14 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-11-04 18:14:36
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.