PT-2018-14870 · Ncurses · Ncurses

Published 2018-11-12 · Updated 2024-08-05 · CVE-2018-19217

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses versions 6.x

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference at the function nc name match that will lead to a denial of service attack. 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.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

AZL-40988

CVE-2018-19217

Affected Products

Ncurses

References · 10

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19217 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19217 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-40988 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19217 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-04/msg00020.html · Note