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CVE-2018-19217

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% 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, 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

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: 6.1

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753

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