CVE-2018-19217: Invisible-Island Ncurses

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In ncurses, possibly a 6.x version, there is a NULL pointer dereference at the function _nc_name_match that will lead to a denial of service attack. NOTE: the original report stated version 6.1, but the issue did not reproduce for that version according to the maintainer or a reliable third-party

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Published 2018-11-12. Last modified 2026-07-23.