{"id":"CVE-2018-19211","details":"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.","modified":"2026-07-08T16:39:56.526363Z","published":"2018-11-12T19:29:00.347Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2018:3967-1","SUSE-SU-2018:4000-1"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/mirror/ncurses","events":[{"introduced":"1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d"},{"last_affected":"1713400c1c9b80cb7cb9d204acb0525dc592b07d"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"6.1"},{"last_affected":"6.1"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["6.1","v6.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-19211.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}