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Vulnerability · Published Apr 18, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-29458

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity out-of-bounds read in the ncurses package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 28.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20ncurses6.3_p20220416-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29458
Alpine:v3.21ncurses6.3_p20220416-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29458
Alpine:v3.22ncurses6.3_p20220416-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29458
Alpine:v3.23ncurses6.3_p20220416-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29458
Alpine:v3.24ncurses6.3_p20220416-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-29458
Debian:12ncurses6.3+20220423-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29458
Debian:13ncurses6.3+20220423-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29458
Debian:14ncurses6.3+20220423-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29458
Rocky Linux:9ncurses0:6.2-10.20210508.el9_6.2RLSA-2025:12876
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSncurses6.3-2ubuntu0.1USN-6099-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSncurses6.3-2ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29458

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-125 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References