🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2023-46246
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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 Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-10-27
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-02-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vim — 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15

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