CVE-2018-19217

MEDIUM

ncurses - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in _nc_name_match

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack. NOTE: the original report stated version 6.1, but the issue did not reproduce for that version according to the maintainer or a reliable third-party

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0040
EPSS Percentile 61.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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