An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
High CVSS 8.8
Summary
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Lint boundary warnings (2)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Patch
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/43 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/45 Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.html Exploit
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00023.html Mailing List
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0012/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213443 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213444 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Patch
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/43 Mailing List
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/45 Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.html Exploit
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00023.html Mailing List
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0012/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213443 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213444 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD