Alpine/ncurses: high 8.8

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

Action: Upgrade ncurses to 6.2_p20200530-r0 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: ALPINE-CVE-2021-39537#Alpine:v3.17/ncurses
• https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-39537

published 2021-09-20T16:15:12.477Z · modified 2026-10-23T17:17:56.207657629Z · JSON