CVE-2021-39537 (GCVE-0-2021-39537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:06
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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