2 issues skipped by the security teams:
- CVE-2018-19211: 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.
- CVE-2018-10754: In ncurses before 6.1.20180414, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data in which a use-name is invalid syntax. The product proceeds to the dereference code path even after a "dubious character `[' in name or alias field" detection.
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