🛡️ CVE-2023-46246
🟡 CVSS 4.0 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-190 NVD
4.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Vim is an improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Heap-use-after-free in memory allocated in the function `ga_grow_inner` in in the file `src/alloc.c` at line 748, which is freed in the file `src/ex_docmd.c` in the function `do_cmdline` at line 1010 and then used again in `src/cmdhist.c` at line 759. When using the `:history` command, it's possible that the provided argument overflows the accepted value. Causing an Integer Overflow and potentially later an use-after-free. This vulnerability has been patched in version 9.0.2068.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-190
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-27
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-02-13

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vim — 9.0.2068

References

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