Security Advisory

CVE-2018-19211

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-11-12 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 11:30:04
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.