CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-19211

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-11-12 Modified 2026-07-23 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-11-12
Last modified
2026-07-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

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.

Affected configurations

• invisible-island ncurses 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References