CVE-2019-17595

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

CVSS 3.1

5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

EPSS

2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-125

Published

2019-10-14

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• invisible-island:ncurses
• opensuse:leap

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28

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