ncurses <6.4 Memory Corruption via Malformed terminfo (setuid)
CVE-2023-29491 Published on April 14, 2023

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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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.07%
Percentile
21.32%

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