CVE-2025-6141

Publication date 16 June 2025

Last updated 3 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A vulnerability has been found in GNU ncurses up to 6.5-20250322 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function postprocess_termcap of the file tinfo/parse_entry.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. Upgrading to version 6.5-20250329 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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Why is this CVE low priority?

no security impact as terminfo files are trusted

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ncurses	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

Notes

mdeslaur

This is in the code that parses terminfo database files. terminfo files are normally trusted, and since the fix for CVE-2023-29491, we no longer parse terminfo files when apps are setuid. As such, this doesn't really have a security impact. Setting priority to low.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L