RHSA-2025:17006 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: ncurses security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2025:17006 — Red Hat Security Advisory: ncurses security update | PulseLinux