ncurses v6.5 and v6.4 are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in progs/infocmp.c, function analyze_string().

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https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720 cve-icon cve-icon
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History

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

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Gnu ncurses

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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Description ncurses v6.5 and v6.4 are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in progs/infocmp.c, function analyze_string().
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-19T14:52:32.368Z

Reserved: 2026-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-69720

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-19T15:16:21.293

Modified: 2026-03-19T15:16:21.293

Link: CVE-2025-69720

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Updated: 2026-03-20T08:58:08Z

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