cve/2023/CVE-2023-29491.md

### [CVE-2023-29491](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29491)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/seal-community/patches
- https://github.com/yo-yo-yo-jbo/yo-yo-yo-jbo.github.io