{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-04-12T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data",
    "id" : "2191704",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2191704"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-787",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A vulnerability was found in ncurses and occurs when used by a setuid application. This flaw allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable." ],
  "statement" : "The impact of this CVE is rated Moderate for several reasons which make it difficult to exploit or limited consequences:\n* The only outcome is memory corruption possibly leading to a crash\n* There is no trace of privilege escalation\n* It cannot be triggered remotely, an attacker must have local access",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-09-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:5249",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "ncurses-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0416",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6",
    "package" : "ncurses-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8_6.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6698",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "ncurses-0:6.2-10.20210508.el9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6698",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "ncurses-0:6.2-10.20210508.el9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7361",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2",
    "package" : "ncurses-0:6.2-8.20210508.el9_2.1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "ncurses",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "ncurses",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29491\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29491" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-29491",
  "csaw" : false
}