CVE-2025-69720
Publication date 19 March 2026
Last updated 2 April 2026
Ubuntu priority
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.
Read the notes from the security team
Why is this CVE low priority?
This is just a crash in a command line tool
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| ncurses | 25.10 questing |
Needs evaluation
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| 24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
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| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
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| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
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| 14.04 LTS trusty |
Needs evaluation
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Notes
mdeslaur
In Ubuntu, compiler hardening restricts this to a denial of service only, so this is just a crash in a command-line tool.
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
9.8 · Critical
|
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |