debian · CVE-2023-29491

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:02:26 GMT

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CVE-2023-29491 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ncurses), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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