ubuntu-cve-2025-69720
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-03-19 15:16
Modified
2026-07-08 16:34
Summary
Details
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
7.8 (High)
7.3 (High)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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