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CVE-2018-19211

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-11-12 · updated 2026-07-23
• Weakness: 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 products

• GNU ncurses: 6.1

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754

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