CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-39537
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses (<= 6.2.1)
• apple mac os x 10.12.6
• apple macos 11.7
• apple macos 13.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- 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 lists.debian.org
- 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
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0012/ security.netapp.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213443 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213444 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory
- 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 lists.debian.org
- 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
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230427-0012/ security.netapp.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213443 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213444 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory