CVE-2023-48235

Publication date 16 November 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Why is this CVE low priority?

Requires user interaction

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 23.10 mantic
Fixed 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L