PT-2026-41335 · Julia · Ncurses Jll

Published 2026-05-05 · Updated 2026-05-05

OSV

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.

Related Identifiers

JLSEC-2026-453

Affected Products

Ncurses Jll

References · 13

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/JLSEC-2026-453 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT · Vendor Advisory
• http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 · Note
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html · Note
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009 · Note
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 · Note
• https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843 · Note