CVE-2018-20786

N/A
Published: February 24, 2019 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 06:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibvterm

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 0\+bzr726

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3711
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476

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