Bug 2373114

Summary:	CVE-2025-6141 ncurses: ncurses Stack Buffer Overflow [fedora-42]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	42	CC:	dickey, mlichvar
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["0ffb4d1c-8702-4f7f-a404-a9457ccdb37b"]}
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Last Closed:	2025-06-17 10:51:36 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2373097

Description Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-17 05:04:51 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373097

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2025-06-17 10:51:36 UTC

This should be now fixed in rawhide, not in F42 as it seems to have a low impact (users are not expected to compile or use untrusted terminfos).