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2 vulnerabilities found for ncurses by invisible-island
CVE-2025-69720 (GCVE-0-2025-69720)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-03-19 00:00 – Updated: 2026-06-02 13:00
VLAI
Summary
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
Severity
7.3 (High)
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNU | ncurses |
Affected:
0 , < 6.5-20251213
(custom)
|
|
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM RST2428P |
Affected:
0 , < V4.0
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CVE-2025-69720 (GCVE-0-2025-69720)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 00:00 – Updated: 2026-06-02 13:00
VLAI
Summary
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
Severity
7.3 (High)
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
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Affected:
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(custom)
|
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