| Name | CVE-2018-19211 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | ELA-643-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ncurses (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.9+20140913-1+deb8u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u5 | fixed |
| bullseye | 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.4-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.5-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - ncurses <postponed> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - ncurses <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - ncurses <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754