PT-2018-18924 · Music Player Daemon+2 · Ncmpc+2

Jonathan Neuschäfer · Published 2018-04-03 · Updated 2023-01-20 · CVE-2018-9240

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncmpc versions prior to 0.30

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference flaw. If a user is using the chat screen and another client sends a long chat message, it could cause a crash and denial of service.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.30, update to version 0.30 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2366

CVE-2018-9240

DLA-2186-1

USN-4507-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

Ncmpc

References · 19

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-9240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-9240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-2186-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2018-2366 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ncmpc · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-9240 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9240 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2186-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-9240 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9240 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4507-1 · Vendor Advisory