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CVE-2024-41957

Aug. 1, 2024, 10:15 p.m.

CVSS Score

4.5 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

Vim

  • < 9.1.0647

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-default flags, but it may cause a crash of Vim. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0647

Weaknesses

CWE-415
Double Free

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.

CWE ID: 415

Date

Published: Aug. 1, 2024, 10:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Aug. 1, 2024, 10:15 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score
4.5
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
3.4
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

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View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://github.com/ security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/ security-advisories@github.com