CVE-2025-69720
high
CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.3
Description
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
72%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | — |
| sid | Fixed | 6.6+20251231-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 6.6+20251231-1 |
| bullseye | Affected | — |
| bookworm | Affected | — |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-69720.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-69720
- https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720
- https://invisible-island.net/archives/ncurses/6.5/
- https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176539968328570&w=2
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176540731801330&w=2
- https://marc.info/?l=ncurses-bug&m=176545557728083&w=2
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html
CWEs
CWE-121 CWE-120
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.