Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.2+20200912-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-NCURSES-1655741
- published 21 Sep 2021
- disclosed 20 Sep 2021
Introduced: 20 Sep 2021
CVE-2021-39537 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
ncurses
to version 6.2+20200912-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses
package and not the ncurses
package as distributed by Debian:11
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.