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CVE-2018-9240

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

ncmpc through 0.29 is prone to a NULL pointer dereference flaw. If a user uses the chat screen and another client sends a long chat message, a crash and denial of service could occur.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Ncmpc Project Ncmpc: through 0.29

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/894724
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00020.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4507-1/
• https://bugs.debian.org/894724
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00020.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4507-1/

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