CVE-2018-20786 (GCVE-0-2018-20786)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-24 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:12
VLAI
Summary
libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application crash), related to screen.c, state.c, and vterm.c.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6… x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3711 x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2019-02-24 00:00
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