CVE-2018-19211

Publication date

2018-11-12 19:00:00

Family

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.