Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ncurses package, versions *
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- published24 Oct 2025
- disclosed22 Oct 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 22 Oct 2025
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-125 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
There is no fixed version for ncurses.
Overview
ncurses is a thin wrapper around the ncurses TUI lib.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via multiple string reading functions. An attacker can access sensitive data from previous memory allocations by reading uninitialized memory when a null terminator is provided.
Note: The ncurses-rs repository is archived and unmaintained.