CVE-2025-69720

Publication date 19 March 2026

Last updated 2 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ncurses	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Fixed 6.5+20250216-2ubuntu0.1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 6.4+20240113-1ubuntu2.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 6.3-2ubuntu0.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 6.2-0ubuntu2.1+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm3
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm6

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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

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-