Invisible Island Ncurses vulnerabilities

28 vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in Invisible Island Ncurses, newest first, with CVSS severity, EPSS, KEV listings, ransomware use and the affected versions.

PrioritiseCVE-2025-69720gnu · ncurses +29 moregnu ncursesThe infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.CVSS7.8HighEPSS0.46%RoutineCVE-2020-19190invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesBuffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry in tinfo/comp_hash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS1.94%RoutineCVE-2020-19189debian · debian_linux +4 moredebian debian_linuxBuffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.29%RoutineCVE-2020-19188invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesBuffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1116 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS1.94%RoutineCVE-2020-19187invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesBuffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1100 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS1.94%RoutineCVE-2020-19186invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesBuffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.04%RoutineCVE-2020-19185invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesBuffer Overflow vulnerability in one_one_mapping function in progs/dump_entry.c:1373 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS1.94%PrioritiseCVE-2023-29491invisible-island · ncurses +29 moreinvisible-island ncursesncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.CVSS7.8HighEPSS0.98%PrioritiseCVE-2022-29458apple · macos +32 moreapple macosncurses 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.CVSS7.1HighEPSS1.33%PrioritiseCVE-2021-39537apple · mac_os_x +18 moreapple mac_os_xAn issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.CVSS8.8HighEPSS3.24%RoutineCVE-2019-17594invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.CVSS5.3MediumEPSS0.55%RoutineCVE-2019-17595invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.CVSS5.8MediumEPSS2.22%RoutineCVE-2018-19217invisible-island · ncurses +2 moreinvisible-island ncursesIn ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack. NOTE: the original report stated version 6.1, but the issue did not reproduce for that version according to the maintainer or a reliable third-partyCVSS6.5MediumEPSS1.16%RoutineCVE-2018-19211invisible-island · ncurses +13 moreinvisible-island ncursesIn ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will lead to a denial of service attack. The product proceeds to the dereference code path even after a "dubious character `*' in name or alias field" detection.CVSS5.5MediumEPSS0.86%RoutineCVE-2017-16879invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesStack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic.CVSS7.8HighEPSS2.39%RoutineCVE-2017-13734invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.15%RoutineCVE-2017-13733invisible-island · ncurses +6 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.76%RoutineCVE-2017-13732invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.93%RoutineCVE-2017-13731invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.93%RoutineCVE-2017-13730invisible-island · ncurses +3 moreinvisible-island ncursesThere is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.CVSS6.5MediumEPSS2.93%