CVE-2025-6141

medium

Description

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.

References

https://www.gnu.org/

https://vuldb.com/?submit.593000

https://vuldb.com/?id.312610

https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.312610

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2025-03/msg00114.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2025-03/msg00109.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2025-03/msg00107.html

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20250329

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-16

Updated: 2025-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00013