Invisible-island vulnerabilities
Published CVEs affecting Invisible-island products: 13 record(s), with severity, exploitation and fixes.
CVE-2017-20229
Critical · 9.8
CWE-787 Mar 28, 2026
MAWK 1.3.3-17 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow
MAWK 1.3.3-17 and prior contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by exploiting inadequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. Attackers can craft malicious input that overflows the stack buffer and execute a return-oriented programming chain to spawn a shell with application privileges.
CVE-2025-69720
High · 7.8
CWE-121 Mar 19, 2026
Stack-based Buffer Overflow in Invisible-island Ncurses
The infocmp command-line tool in ncurses before 6.5-20251213 has a stack-based buffer overflow in analyze_string in progs/infocmp.c.
CVE-2023-50495
Medium · 6.5
Dec 12, 2023
NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component...
NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().
CVE-2020-19190
Medium · 6.5
CWE-787 Aug 22, 2023
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry in tinfo/comp_hash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows...
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry in tinfo/comp_hash.c:70 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.
CVE-2020-19189
Medium · 6.5
CWE-787 Aug 22, 2023
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in...
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.
CVE-2020-19188
Medium · 6.5
CWE-787 Aug 22, 2023
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1116 in ncurses 6.1...
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1116 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.
CVE-2020-19187
Medium · 6.5
CWE-787 Aug 22, 2023
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1100 in ncurses 6.1...
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c:1100 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.
CVE-2020-19186
Medium · 6.5
CWE-787 Aug 22, 2023
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1...
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c:66 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.
CVE-2020-19185
Medium · 6.5
CWE-787 Aug 22, 2023
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in one_one_mapping function in progs/dump_entry.c:1373 in ncurses 6...
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in one_one_mapping function in progs/dump_entry.c:1373 in ncurses 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted command.
CVE-2023-29491
High · 7.8
CWE-787 Apr 13, 2023
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger...
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.
CVE-2021-39537
High · 8.8
CWE-787 Sep 20, 2021
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based...
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVE-2019-17595
Medium · 5.4
CWE-125 Oct 14, 2019
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the...
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.
CVE-2019-17594
Medium · 5.3
CWE-125 Oct 14, 2019
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the...
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.