CVE-2018-19217

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-19217
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-12 19:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:55:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** 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.

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
1643753 – There is a Segmentation fault on unknown address in function _nc_name_match in libncurses6.1 MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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