CVE-2018-19217: 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…

PriorityP422medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.15%

63.3th percentile

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

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	ncurses	< ncurses 6.0+20170701-1 (bookworm)	ncurses 6.0+20170701-1 (bookworm)
gnu	ncurses	—	—
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170701-1	6.0+20170701-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170701-1	6.0+20170701-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170701-1	6.0+20170701-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170701-1	6.0+20170701-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM

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