Unscored USN-6451-1 1 CVE

ncurses vulnerability

Published Oct 24, 2023 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that ncurses could be made to read out of bounds.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS	ncurses	5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm4
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS	ncurses	6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm4
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS	ncurses	6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

Unscored —

CVE-2020-19189

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote …

ncurses ncurses Debian Ubuntu

Aug 22, 2023

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-19189