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CVE-2021-39537

8.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 6

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 8.8 · invisible-island, appleNVD modified 2026-10-08 21:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 4

  • cpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:ncurses:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.12.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:11.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 24