cve/2018/CVE-2018-19217.md

CVE-2018-19217

Description

** DISPUTED ** 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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon