Red Hat alert RHSA-2023:7361-01 (ncurses)

An update for ncurses is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2
Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method
of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses
packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a
decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool
captoinfo.

Security Fix(es):

* ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via
malformed data (CVE-2023-29491)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

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