CVE-2000-0963: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ncurses library allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via long environmental information such as TERM or TERMINFO_DIRS.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.4 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only
• Immunix Immunix: version 6.2 only; version 7.0_beta only
• Invisible-Island Ncurses: before 5.6 (fixed in 5.6)
• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2000-12-19. Last modified 2026-09-23.