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CVE-2024-45306
published 2024-09-02

CVE-2024-45306: 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…

PriorityP421medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.30%
22.0th percentile
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.

Affected

12 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
appleios18.2_and_ipados18.2
applemacos_sequoia
applemacossonoma14.7.2
applemacosventura13.7.2
appletvos18.2
applevisionos2.2
applewatchos11.2
debianvim< vim 2:9.1.0709-1 (forky)vim 2:9.1.0709-1 (forky)
vimvim
vimvim>= 0 < 2:9.1.0709-12:9.1.0709-1
vimvim>= 0 < 2:9.1.0709-12:9.1.0709-1
vimvim>= 9.1.0038 < 9.1.07079.1.0707

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian4.5LOW
vendor_redhat4.5MEDIUM
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