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Red Hat: CVE-2018-20786: libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 24, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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