Out-of-bounds Write Affecting terminfo package, versions <6.1-150000.5.15.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-TERMINFO-5500181
  • published9 May 2023
  • disclosed5 May 2023

Introduced: 5 May 2023

CVE-2023-29491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 terminfo to version 6.1-150000.5.15.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream terminfo package and not the terminfo package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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