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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1778
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-05 21:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-19 21:50 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2023-29491)
Affected Packages:
ncurses
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ncurses to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.i686
src:
ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64
ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64
ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64
ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64
ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64
ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64
ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.15.amzn1.x86_64