CVE-2022-29458

Summary

CVECVE-2022-29458
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-18 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:46:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-125

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 Gnu Ncurses 6.3 - All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-10-24-2 macOS Ventura 13 seclists.org
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-10-27-5 Additional information for APPLE-SA-2022-10-24-2 macOS Ventura 13 FULLDISC seclists.org
An illegal memory access in ncurses, tic MISC lists.gnu.org
About the security content of macOS Ventura 13 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
Re: An illegal memory access in ncurses, tic MISC lists.gnu.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3167-1] ncurses security update MLIST lists.debian.org
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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