CVE-2018-20786
published 2019-02-24CVE-2018-20786: 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)…
PriorityP434high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
2.97%
85.8th percentile
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
10 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | libvterm | < vim 2:8.1.0693-1 (bookworm) | vim 2:8.1.0693-1 (bookworm) |
| debian | vim | < vim 2:8.1.0693-1 (bookworm) | vim 2:8.1.0693-1 (bookworm) |
| leonerd | libvterm | <= 0\+bzr726 | — |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:8.1.0693-1 | 2:8.1.0693-1 |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:8.1.0693-1 | 2:8.1.0693-1 |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:8.1.0693-1 | 2:8.1.0693-1 |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:8.1.0693-1 | 2:8.1.0693-1 |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.4 | 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.4 |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.3 | 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.3 |
| vim | vim | >= 0 < 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm1 | 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv7.8HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.8HIGH
vendor_debian7.5LOW
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
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Ubuntu
Vim vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2020-03-23·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2017-11109 [HIGH] Vim vulnerabilities
Title: Vim vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Vim.
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain sources.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (CVE-2017-11109)
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
(CVE-2017-5953)
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.06 LTS. (CVE-2018-20786)
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker
c
Red Hat
libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks
vendor_redhat·2018-12-24·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CWE-476 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks
libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks
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.
Statement: Red Hat has determined this flaw to be of LOW impact as the vulnerable code is not used when compiling and building /`usr/bin/vi`; the code is not used because `/usr/bin/vi` is built with `--with-features=small`.
Package: vim (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8) - Fix deferred
Debian
CVE-2018-20786: libvterm - libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain...
vendor_debian·2018·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CVE-2018-20786: libvterm - libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain...
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.
Scope: local
bookworm: open
bullseye: open
forky: open
sid: open
trixie: open
GHSA
GHSA-4r6h-327w-8qwr: libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-13
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CWE-476 GHSA-4r6h-327w-8qwr: libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application
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.
OSV
vim vulnerabilities
osv·2020-03-23·CVSS 7.8
CVE-2017-11109 [HIGH] vim vulnerabilities
vim vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain sources.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (CVE-2017-11109)
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
(CVE-2017-5953)
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.06 LTS. (CVE-2018-20786)
It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or
OSV
CVE-2018-20786: libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application
osv·2019-02-24·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CVE-2018-20786: libvterm through 0+bzr726, as used in Vim and other products, mishandles certain out-of-memory conditions, leading to a denial of service (application
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.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2019-02-25·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks [fedora-all]
CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of fedora-all.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple sup
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks [epel-7]
bugzilla·2019-02-25·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks [epel-7]
CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks [epel-7]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of epel-7.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
Discussion:
Use the following template to fo
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks
bugzilla·2019-02-25·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-20786 [HIGH] CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks
CVE-2018-20786 libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks
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.
Upstream Issue:
https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3711
Upstream Patch:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6d6dcf35c8b34124e969fed6b8
Discussion:
Created libvterm tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1680591]
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Created libvterm tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1680592]
2019-02-24
Published