CVE-2023-48235
When parsing relative ex addresses one may unintentionally cause an overflow.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When parsing relative ex addresses one may unintentionally cause an overflow. Ironically this happens in the existing overflow check, because the line number becomes negative and LONG_MAX - lnum will cause the overflow. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `060623e` which has been included in release version 9.0.2110. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- EPSS
- 0.76% probability · 53th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-190
- Affected
- vim/vim · fedoraproject/fedora
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/16/1Mailing List
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/060623e4a3bc72b011e7cd92bedb3bfb64e06200Patch
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-6g74-hr6q-pr8gVendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4UJAK2W5S7G75ETDAEM3BDUCVSXCEGRD/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M3VQF7CL3V6FGSEW37WNDFBRRILR65AK/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VNRNYLWXZOGTYWE5HMFNQ5FVE3HBUHF6/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0007/Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/11/16/1Mailing List
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/060623e4a3bc72b011e7cd92bedb3bfb64e06200Patch
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-6g74-hr6q-pr8gVendor Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4UJAK2W5S7G75ETDAEM3BDUCVSXCEGRD/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M3VQF7CL3V6FGSEW37WNDFBRRILR65AK/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VNRNYLWXZOGTYWE5HMFNQ5FVE3HBUHF6/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0007/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.