CVE-2021-39537: Out-of-bounds Write

September 20, 2021 (updated December 3, 2023)

An issue was discovered in ncurses _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c as it was found to have a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2020-08/msg00006.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39537

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