NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting vim-filesystem package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-VIMFILESYSTEM-1939861
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Dec 2018

Introduced: 24 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 vim-filesystem.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-filesystem package and not the vim-filesystem package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 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.