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Package "libncursesw6"

Name: libncursesw6

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shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
Latest version: 6.5+20250216-2ubuntu0.1
Release: questing (25.10)
Level: security
Repository: main
Head package: ncurses
Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

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Version: 6.5+20250216-2ubuntu0.1 2026-07-02 17:07:35 UTC

  ncurses (6.5+20250216-2ubuntu0.1) questing-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 21:25:27 +0000
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.


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