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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-20786)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-20786)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4309-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain sources. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04     LTS (CVE-2017-11109)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-5953)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.06 LTS. (CVE-2018-20786)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-20079)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2017-6349, CVE-2017-6350)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254383	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-20786	Nessus	Misc.	high
405379	Alpine: multiple libvterm packages: security update to 0.1.4-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
405379	Alpine: multiple libvterm packages: security update to 0.1.4-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
405378	Alpine: multiple libvterm packages: security update to 0.1.20190920-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
405378	Alpine: multiple libvterm packages: security update to 0.1.20190920-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
134856	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-4309-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical

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