Microsoft security update for CVE-2021-39537
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- cbl2 ncurses 6.2-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cm1 ncurses 6.2-5 on CBL Mariner 1.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 6.2-5 |
| — | Security Update | 6.2-6 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2021-39537
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2021-39537, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).