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Ubuntu: USN-4309-1 (CVE-2018-20786): Vim vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4309-1 (CVE-2018-20786): Vim vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/24/2019
Created
03/26/2020
Added
03/24/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-vim
  • ubuntu-upgrade-vim-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-vim-gui-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-vim-runtime

References

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