cve/2018/CVE-2018-19211.md

CVE-2018-19211

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