GSD-2021-39537

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
Details
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
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CVE-2021-39537
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