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CVSSv2

CVE-2021-39537

Published: 20/09/2021 Updated: 03/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 606
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: USN-5477-1: ncurses vulnerabilities
Several security issues were fixed in ncurses ...
Amazon Linux 2: ALAS2-2022-1893
The ncurses package (tic) is susceptible to a heap overflow on crafted input When the terminfo entry-description compiler processes input, proper bounds checking was not enforced leading to this software flaw The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability (CVE-2021-39537) A segmentation fault vulnerability was found in ncurses ...
Arch Linux Issues:
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v62-1 _nc_captoinfo in captoinfoc has a heap-based buffer overflow ...
Amazon Linux 2022: ALAS-2022-217
ALAS-2022-217 Amazon Linux 2022 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-217 Advisory Release Date: 2022-12-06 16:41 Pacific ...

References

CWE-787https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.htmlhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00023.htmlhttp://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markuphttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213443https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213444http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/43http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/45https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0012/https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.htmlhttps://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5477-1https://nvd.nist.gov
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