CVE-2022-29458 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

ncurses 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Apple	Macos
Debian	Debian Linux
Gnu	Ncurses

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.3:-::::::

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00037.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00014.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00016.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29458
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29458

History

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-04-18T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-06-09T14:53:36.453Z

Reserved: 2022-04-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-29458

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T06:26:05.098Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-04-18T21:15:07.600

Modified: 2025-06-09T15:15:27.430

Link: CVE-2022-29458

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-04-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-29458 - Bugzilla

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