CVE-2021-39537 log

Source
Severity Medium
Remote No
Type Denial of service
Description
The ncurses package (tic) is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow on crafted input affecting the _nc_captoinfo function in captoinfo.c. When the terminfo entry-description compiler processes input, proper bounds checking was not enforced leading to this software flaw.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-2402 ncurses 6.2-1 6.3-1 Medium Fixed
References
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches/Attic/patch-ncurses_tinfo_captoinfo.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2021-10/msg00022.html