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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.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.278

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses5-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses5-32bit-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses5-debuginfo-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses5-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses6-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses6-32bit-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses6-debuginfo-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) libncurses6-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ncurses-debugsource-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ncurses-devel-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ncurses-devel-debuginfo-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ncurses-utils-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) ncurses-utils-debuginfo-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) tack-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) tack-debuginfo-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) terminfo-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 ) terminfo-base-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 ) ncurses-devel-32bit-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 ) ncurses-devel-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-61.1.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234