Candidate: CVE-2021-39537
PublicDate: 2021-09-20 16:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-39537
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.html
Description:
 An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in
 captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> read of size 1, DoS only
Mitigation:
Bugs:
Priority: negligible
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.8 HIGH]


Patches_ncurses:
 upstream: https://github.com/mirror/ncurses/commit/790a85dbd4a81d5f5d8dd02a44d84f01512ef443
upstream_ncurses: released (6.3)
trusty_ncurses: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_ncurses: needs-triage
xenial_ncurses: ignored (out of standard support)
esm-infra/xenial_ncurses: needs-triage
bionic_ncurses: needs-triage
focal_ncurses: needs-triage
hirsute_ncurses: ignored (reached end-of-life)
impish_ncurses: not-affected (6.2+20201114-2build1)
jammy_ncurses: not-affected (6.3-2)
devel_ncurses: not-affected (6.3-2)