Bug 1652600 (CVE-2018-19211) - CVE-2018-19211 ncurses: Null pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c
Summary: CVE-2018-19211 ncurses: Null pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-19211
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1576121 1652602
Blocks: 1652603
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-22 13:07 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-11-27 06:48:34 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-11-22 13:07:18 UTC 
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.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643754
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-11-22 13:07:43 UTC 
Created ncurses tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1652602]
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-11-27 06:48:34 UTC 
Given that it does not seem easily reproducible and could very well be a crash due to crafted input values, it is more appropriate to wontfix this.
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