ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-39537
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537
Upstream
Published
2021-09-20T16:15:12Z
Modified
2026-08-27T22:18:01Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.12
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200523-r1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.13
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.14
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.15
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.16
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.17
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.18
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.19
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.20
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.21
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.22
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.23
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"
Alpine:v3.24
ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2_p20200530-r0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537.json"