CVE-2018-19211

MEDIUM

ncurses 6.1 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in _nc_parse_entry

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will lead to a denial of service attack. The product proceeds to the dereference code path even after a "dubious character `*' in name or alias field" detection.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 50.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/ncurses 6.1
Published Nov 12, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026