cve/2018/CVE-2018-19211.md

### [CVE-2018-19211](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19211)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon