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CVE-2019-15548

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because interaction with C functions is mishandled.

Affected products

• Ncurses Project Ncurses: through 5.99.0

References

• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html
• https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html

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