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LIN9-7739 : Security Advisory - ncurses - CVE-2018-19217

Created: Nov 15, 2018    Updated: Dec 30, 2020
Resolved Date: Dec 30, 2020
Found In Version: 9.0.0.19
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

Description

In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19217

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