CVE-2023-29491 (GCVE-0-2023-29491)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-14 00:00 – Updated: 2026-10-14 23:03
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-27 14:44 UTC
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
14 references
Impacted products
14 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP |
Affected:
V3.1.0 , < V3.1.5
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP |
Affected:
V3.1.0 , < V3.1.5
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP |
Affected:
V3.1.0 , < V3.1.5
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX MX5000RE |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1400 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1500 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1501 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1510 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1511 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1512 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1524 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX1536 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed | |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM ROX RX5000 |
Affected:
0 , < V2.17.0
(custom)
|
guessed |
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