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CVE-2018-19211

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Not yet rated — under the NVD policy in effect since April 2026, most CVEs are no longer analyzed immediately. The EPSS score (if available) is still shown.

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.

Metrics

EPSS — exploit probability
1% (percentile: 59) as of 2 November 2026
CWE
CWE-476

Affected products

invisible-island: ncurses

References