CVE-2025-6141

June 16, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

4.8
Medium

Description

A vulnerability has been found in GNU ncurses up to 6.5-20250322 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function postprocess_termcap of the file tinfo/parse_entry.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. Upgrading to version 6.5-20250329 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Gnu
  • Ncurses
  • <6.5-20250322, 6.5-20250329

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a gnu ncurses <6.5-20250322 / / / / / / /
a gnu ncurses 6.5-20250329 / / / / / / /

References

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20250329
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2025-03/msg00107.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2025-03/msg00109.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2025-03/msg00114.html
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.312610
https://vuldb.com/?id.312610
https://vuldb.com/?submit.593000
https://www.gnu.org/

Tags

CWE-119
cna@vuldb.com
2025-06-16
CVE-2025-6141

CVSS Score

4.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: LOW
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: June 16, 2025, 10:16 p.m.
Last Modified: June 16, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cna@vuldb.com

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