🛡️ CVE-2022-29458
🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-125 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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 library.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-125
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-04-18
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-06-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
macos 13.0
ncurses

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41

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