vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-29458: ncurses: segfaulting OOB read (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 18, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Sep 24, 2025

Description

ncurses 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.

Solutions

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