CVE-2025-69720 (GCVE-0-2025-69720)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 00:00 – Updated: 2026-03-26 15:08
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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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GNU ncurses Affected: 0 , < 6.5-20251213 (custom)
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