CVE-2018-10754

ncurses: NULL Pointer Dereference in _nc_parse_entry function in tinfo/parse_entry.c.

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · April 12, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for compilation. An attacker able to provide specially crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the application parsing it.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 2.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference