Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-29491
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 ncurses 6.4-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 ncurses 6.4-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 6.4-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-29491
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-29491, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).