CVE-2022-29458 (GCVE-0-2022-29458)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-18 00:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 14:53
VLAI
Summary
ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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