CVE-2020-19190

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-19190
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-19190.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-19190
Downstream
Published
2023-08-22T19:16:01Z
Modified
2025-07-29T09:17:24.027958Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in ncfindentry in tinfo/comphash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1+20191019-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1+20191019-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1+20191019-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d

Affected versions

v4.*

v4.1
v4.2

v5.*

v5.0
v5.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.9

v6.*

v6.0
v6.1