CVE-2023-50495 (GCVE-0-2023-50495)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:20
VLAI
Summary
NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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