CVE-2024-41965

medium

Description

Vim is an open source command line text editor. double-free in dialog_changed() in Vim < v9.1.0648. When abandoning a buffer, Vim may ask the user what to do with the modified buffer. If the user wants the changed buffer to be saved, Vim may create a new Untitled file, if the buffer did not have a name yet. However, when setting the buffer name to Unnamed, Vim will falsely free a pointer twice, leading to a double-free and possibly later to a heap-use-after-free, which can lead to a crash. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0648.

References

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-46pw-v7qw-xc2f

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b29f4abcd4b3382fa746edd1d0562b7b48c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-08-01

Updated: 2024-08-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium