NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libvterm package, versions <0.1.20190920-r1
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- published7 Jul 2021
- disclosed24 Feb 2019
Introduced: 24 Feb 2019
CVE-2018-20786 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.14 libvterm to version 0.1.20190920-r1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvterm package and not the libvterm package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.