| Name | CVE-2025-69720 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ncurses (PTS) | bullseye | 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 6.4-4 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 6.5+20250216-2 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 6.6+20251231-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ncurses | source | (unstable) | 6.6+20251231-1 | | | |
Notes
[trixie] - ncurses <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - ncurses <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - ncurses <postponed> (Minor issue, Crash in CLI tool)
https://github.com/Cao-Wuhui/CVE-2025-69720
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20251213
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