CVE-2018-19211

CVE-2018-19211CVE-2018-19211

invisible-island / ncurses

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.

Scoring

CVSS 5.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Last modified2026-07-23
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.