CVE-2018-20786

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20786
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-02-24 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-03-30 20:15:00 UTC
Descriptionlibvterm 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Leonerd Libvterm All All All All
Application Leonerd Libvterm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4309-1: Vim vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
patch 8.1.0633: crash when out of memory while opening a terminal window · vim/vim@cd929f7 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Possible NPD error · Issue #3711 · vim/vim · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501877 Alpine Linux Security Update for libvterm
  • 502117 Alpine Linux Security Update for libvterm

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