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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
SLES.

Severity: 1/4.

Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.

Provenance: user shell.

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).

Creation date: 06/12/2018.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
_nc_parse_entry() of ncurses, in order to trigger a denial of
service.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/ncurses-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-nc-parse-entry-27962