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CVE-2019-20079

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Date: December 29, 2019

The autocmd feature in window.c in Vim before 8.1.2136 accesses freed memory.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20079

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-20079

Url: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154898

Url: https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v8.1.2135...v8.1.2136

Url: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/ec66c41d84e574baf8009dbc0bd088d2bc5b2421

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-20079

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-20079

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v8.1.2136

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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