Chung-Yi Lin

**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions** ncurses versions 6.1 **Description** The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the ` nc parse entry` function of the ncurses library, which can be exploited to cause a denial of service. This occurs even after the detection of a "dubious character `*' in name or alias field". **Recommendations** For ncurses version 6.1, consider applying a patch or fix to resolve the NULL pointer dereference issue in the ` nc parse entry` function to prevent potential denial of service attacks.