NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ncurses package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NCURSES-2319233
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed12 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19211  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ncurses.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.

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