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LIN1021-5612 : Security Advisory - ncurses - CVE-2023-29491

Created: Apr 13, 2023    Updated: Jan 21, 2026
Resolved Date: Jan 6, 2026
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace

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.

========Wind River Notice========
 Customer can configure with --disable-root-environ. With this, ncurses will not be affected by CVE-2023-29491.

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