Description
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Affected products
- gnu / ncurses0 – 6.5-20251213
References
- MAILING_LISThttps://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2
- MAILING_LISThttps://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2
- MAILING_LISThttps://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2
- MISChttps://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720
- MISChttps://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/
- MISChttps://invisible-island.net/ncurses/