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Package "ncurses"

Name: ncurses

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This package is just an umbrella for a group of other packages, it has no description.
Description samples from packages in group:

  • shared libraries for terminal handling (legacy version)
  • shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character legacy version)
  • shared low-level terminfo library (legacy version)
Latest version: 6.3-2ubuntu0.2
Release: jammy (22.04)
Level: security
Repository: universe

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Version: 6.3-2ubuntu0.2 2026-07-02 17:07:31 UTC

  ncurses (6.3-2ubuntu0.2) jammy-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: stack-based buffer overflow in infocmp
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-69720.patch: clamp length to
      MAX_TERMINFO_LENGTH before copying into buf2 in analyze_string.
    - CVE-2025-69720

 -- Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:25:30 +0000
Source diff to previous version
CVE-2025-69720 The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.

Version: 6.3-2ubuntu0.1 2023-05-23 12:07:05 UTC

  ncurses (6.3-2ubuntu0.1) jammy-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds read in the convert_strings function
    - debian/patches/CVE-2022-29458.patch:add a limit-check to guard against
      corrupt terminfo data.
    - CVE-2022-29458
  * SECURITY UPDATE: memory corruption when processing malformed terminfo data
    entries loaded by setuid/setgid programs
    - debian/patches/CVE-2023-29491-mitigation-1.patch: fix copy/paste error
      in configure.in.
    - debian/patches/CVE-2023-29491-mitigation-2.patch: change the
      --disable-root-environ configure option behavior.
    - debian/rules: set --disable-root-environ in configuration options.
    - debian/libtinfo5.symbols, debian/libtinfo6.symbols: add _nc_env_access
      to symbols files.
    - CVE-2023-29491

 -- Camila Camargo de Matos <email address hidden> Tue, 16 May 2023 15:45:27 -0300
CVE-2022-29458 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 libra
CVE-2023-29491 ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data


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