CVE-2023-29491

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 3.1

7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 61% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-787

Published

2023-04-14

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• invisible-island:ncurses

References

• http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/

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