FKIE_CVE-2021-39537
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-09-20 16:15 - Updated: 2026-07-27 13:43
Severity
Summary
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
References
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