RHSA-2025:17006 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: ncurses security update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 30, 2025
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for ncurses is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
Security Fix(es):
- ncurses: segfaulting OOB read (CVE-2022-29458)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.