PT-2023-11515

CVE-2020-19188

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Published

2023-08-22

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Updated

2026-10-14

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.5
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses version 6.1
Description The issue is related to a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the fmt entry function, located in progs/dump entry.c:1116, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted commands.
Recommendations For ncurses version 6.1, update to a version that includes improved checks to address this issue.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Related identifiers
CVE-2020-19188
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