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CVE-2018-20786

libvterm: NULL pointer dereference in vterm_screen_set_callbacks

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · December 24, 2018

Updated · November 21, 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.

Statement

Red Hat has determined this flaw to be of LOW impact as the vulnerable code is not used when compiling and building /usr/bin/vi; the code is not used because /usr/bin/vi is built with --with-features=small.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference