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Libnewt is a freely available, open source graphics library for text screens. It is available for use with Linux operating systems. The newt library does not properly check bounds on some data used by the library. In a setuid program linked against the library, a user could exploit this condition to execute arbitrary code.

Libnewt is a freely available, open source graphics library for text screens. It is available for use with Linux operating systems. The newt library does not properly check bounds on some data used by the library. In a setuid program linked against the library, a user could exploit this condition to execute arbitrary code.