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.
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GNU ncurses Version: 0   < 6.5-20251213
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