In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 14, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 2, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 12, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 14, 2022
Last updated
Feb 2, 2023
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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