Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2018· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2018-19217
CVE-2018-19217
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
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References
1- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
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