CVE-2018-19211

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19211
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19211.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-19211
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-11-12T19:29:00.347Z
Modified
2026-04-11T18:20:37.395588Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function ncparseentry in parseentry.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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.1
v4.2
v5.*
v5.0
v5.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.9
v6.*
v6.0
v6.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19211.json"