CVE-2024-45306CWE-122

heap-buffer-overflow in Vim

Medium · published September 2, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Patch v9.1.0038 optimized how the cursor position is calculated and removed a loop, that verified that the cursor position always points inside a line and does not become invalid by pointing beyond the end of

a line. Back then we assumed this loop is unnecessary. However, this change made it possible that the cursor position stays invalid and points beyond the end of a line, which would eventually cause a heap-buffer-overflow when trying to access the line pointer at

the specified cursor position. It's not quite clear yet, what can lead to this situation that the cursor points to an invalid position. That's why patch v9.1.0707 does not include a test case. The only observed impact has been a program crash. This issue has been addressed in with the patch v9.1.0707. All users are advised to upgrade.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00298 · 21.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2024-09-02T16:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 SEP 16:35Z
    heap-buffer-overflow in Vim
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