CVE-2018-19217

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19217
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19217.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-19217
Downstream
Published
2018-11-12T19:29:00.597Z
Modified
2026-07-08T19:44:51.668553Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function ncname_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

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d
Last affected
1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "6.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

6.*
6.1
v6.*
v6.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19217.json"