CVE-2018-19211

Summary

CVECVE-2018-19211
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-12 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-04-23 13:15:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Ncurses 6.1 All All All
Application Gnu Ncurses 6.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1643754 – There is a Segmentation fault on unknown address in function _nc_parse_entry in libncurses. MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671124 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2019-2634)
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