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ghsa-jh4f-5j2m-4v9c

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-04-19 00:00

Modified

2025-06-09 15:31

Severity ?

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

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  "modified": "2025-06-09T15:31:33Z",
  "published": "2022-04-19T00:00:47Z",
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CVE-2022-29458 (GCVE-0-2022-29458)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-04-18 00:00

Modified

2025-06-09 14:53

Severity ?

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

References

URL

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	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00014.html
	https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00016.html
	https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00037.html	mailing-list
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41	mailing-list
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28	mailing-list

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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