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Medium ELSA-2023-6698 1 CVE

Moderate: ncurses security and bug fix update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Nov 11, 2023 · Updated Nov 11, 2023

Summary

[6.2-10.20210508]
- ignore TERMINFO and HOME only if setuid/setgid/capability (#2211666)

[6.2-9.20210508]
- fix buffer overflow on terminfo with too many capabilities (CVE-2023-29491)
- ignore TERMINFO and HOME environment variables if running as root (#2211666)

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 ncurses 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9
Oracle Linux · 9 ncurses-base 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9
Oracle Linux · 9 ncurses-c++-libs 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9
Oracle Linux · 9 ncurses-devel 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9
Oracle Linux · 9 ncurses-libs 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9
Oracle Linux · 9 ncurses-term 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9

Vulnerabilities 1