CVE-2022-29458

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-29458
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-18 21:15:07 UTC
Updated2026-07-23 18:58:25 UTC
Descriptionncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.1 HIGH from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-125 | n/a | CWE-125 CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
3.1ADPDECLARED7.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
3.1134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0Secondary7.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary5.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Macos All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Gnu Ncurses All All All All
Application Invisible-island Ncurses 6.3 - All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3167-1] ncurses security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-10-24-2 macOS Ventura 13 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
Re: An illegal memory access in ncurses, tic af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.gnu.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-10-27-5 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2022-10-24-2 macOS Ventura 13 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13 - Apple Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com Third Party Advisory
An illegal memory access in ncurses, tic af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.gnu.org Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181173 Debian Security Update for ncurses (DLA 3167-1)
  • 182549 Debian Security Update for ncurses (CVE-2022-29458)
  • 199358 Ubuntu Security Notification for ncurses Vulnerabilities (USN-6099-1)
  • 296086 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 51.132.1 Missing (CPUOCT2022)
  • 354130 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS2-2022-1893
  • 354388 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS2022-2022-217
  • 354530 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS-2022-217
  • 354584 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS-2022-217
  • 355115 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ncurses : ALAS2023-2023-023
  • 502225 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 502436 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 502437 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 502438 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 502453 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 504177 Alpine Linux Security Update for ncurses
  • 671841 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1905)
  • 671894 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1940)
  • 671911 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-2003)
  • 671943 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1973)
  • 671977 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-2139)
  • 672009 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-2164)
  • 672250 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-2625)
  • 752451 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ncurses (SUSE-SU-2022:2718-1)
  • 752456 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ncurses (SUSE-SU-2022:2717-1)
  • 900855 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (9504)
  • 901214 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (9497)
  • 902481 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (9504-1)
  • 905945 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (9504-2)
  • 906370 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ncurses (9497-2)

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