CVE-2025-6141: A vulnerability has been found in GNU ncurses up to 6.5-20250322 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function postprocess_termcap of…

medium4.8CVSS 4.0

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A vulnerability has been found in GNU ncurses up to 6.5-20250322 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function postprocess_termcap of the file tinfo/parse_entry.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. Upgrading to version 6.5-20250329 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	ncurses	< ncurses 6.5+20251115-2 (forky)	ncurses 6.5+20251115-2 (forky)
gnu	ncurses	—	—
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.5+20251115-2	6.5+20251115-2
msrc	azl3_ncurses_6.4-2_on_azure_linux_3.0	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv4.04.8MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

osv4.8MEDIUM