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OS X update for ncurses (CVE-2021-39537)

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OS X update for ncurses (CVE-2021-39537)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/20/2021
Created
10/28/2022
Added
10/28/2022
Modified
12/12/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-11_7
  • apple-osx-upgrade-12_6
  • apple-osx-upgrade-13

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