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Vulnerabilities

Invisible-island ncurses 6.5 any version

Ranked by severity, then by exploit likelihood. Click a CVE ID for its full record.

8CVEs
CVE-2025-69720
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
Published 2026-03-19 · Modified
9.8EPSS 0.004
CVE-2021-39537
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published 2021-09-20 · Modified
8.8EPSS 0.032
CVE-2023-29491
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.
Published 2023-04-14 · Modified
7.8EPSS 0.009
CVE-2000-0963
Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.
Published 2000-11-29 · Modified
7.2EPSS 0.007
CVE-2002-0062
Buffer overflow in ncurses 5.0, and the ncurses4 compatibility package as used in Red Hat Linux, allows local users to gain privileges, related to "routines for moving the physical cursor and scrolling."
Published 2003-04-02 · Modified
7.2EPSS 0.005
CVE-2022-29458
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.
Published 2022-04-18 · Modified
7.1EPSS 0.013
CVE-2019-17595
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.
Published 2019-10-14 · Modified
5.8EPSS 0.021
CVE-2019-17594
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.
Published 2019-10-14 · Modified
5.3EPSS 0.005