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High 7.5Published Feb 24, 2019
CVE-2018-20786libvterm 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.…
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- Not given
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- mitre
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 15, 2026
Affected products
leonerd libvterm leonerd:libvterm | through 0\+bzr726 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cd929f7ba8cc5b6d6dcf35c8b34124e969fed6b8x-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/3711x-refsource-misc, exploit, third-party-advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/vendor-advisory, x-refsource-ubuntu
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