Medium severity · published Nov 12, 2018
CVE-2018-19217
In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack
6.5
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack. NOTE: 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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 67% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NC
Ncurses · Invisible-island
6.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19217
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19217
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643753
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