debian · CVE-2018-19211

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:01:32 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-19211 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ncurses), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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.

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