CVE-2021-39537

HIGH | Platform: macOS | Changelog

CVE Details

Description

An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS 3.1 Score

Metric	Value
Base Score	8.8 (HIGH)
Vector	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`

Weakness

CWE-787

References

Apple Security Advisory
NVD Entry
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/43 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/45 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.html (Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00023.html (Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)