CVE-2024-41957 — Double Free in VIM
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 68.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 1
Latest updateSep 16
Description
Vim is an open source command line text editor. Vim < v9.1.0647 has double free in src/alloc.c:616. When closing a window, the corresponding tagstack data will be cleared and freed. However a bit later, the quickfix list belonging to that window will also be cleared and if that quickfix list points to the same tagstack data, Vim will try to free it again, resulting in a double-free/use-after-free access exception. Impact is low since the user must intentionally execute vim with several non-defau…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.4
Affected Packages14 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
5Debian▶
CVE-2024-41957: vim - Vim is an open source command line text editor. Vim < v9.1.0647 has double free ...↗2024