JLSEC-2026-452

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convertstrings in tinfo/readentry.c in the terminfo library...

ncurses: segfaulting OOB read

A segmentation fault vulnerability was found in ncurses's convertstrings function of tinfo/readentry.c file. This flaw occurs due to corrupted terminfo data, triggering an out-of-bounds read error...

CVE-2022-29458

CVE-2022-29458 affects ncurses 6.3 prior to patch 20220416, with an out-of-bounds read in tinfo/read_entry.c (convert_strings) leading to a segmentation fault. Connected sources confirm the issue is tied to the terminfo processor and mention Linux distributions (e.g., Astra Linux, Cloud Foundry) ...