CVE-2021-39537 (GCVE-0-2021-39537)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-20 00:00
Modified
2026-10-08 21:03
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
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Impacted products
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