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2 vulnerabilities found for ncurses by GNU

CVE-2025-69720 (GCVE-0-2025-69720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-19 00:00
Modified
2026-03-26 15:08
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GNU ncurses Version: 0   < 6.5-20251213
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CVE-2025-6141 (GCVE-0-2025-6141)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-16 22:00
Modified
2025-06-17 13:52
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability has been found in GNU ncurses up to 6.5-20250322 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function postprocess_termcap of the file tinfo/parse_entry.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. Upgrading to version 6.5-20250329 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
References
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Vendor Product Version
GNU ncurses Version: 6.5-20250322
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