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CVE-2018-19217

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 1%

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

Published 2018-11-12 · CVE record · OSV

Products: invisible-island ncurses

Distro releases

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian 12ncurses6.0+20170701-1
Debian 13ncurses6.0+20170701-1
Debian 14ncurses6.0+20170701-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTSncurses5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTSncurses6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1