CVE-2023-48235
LowCVSS 2.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk50th percentile — higher than 50% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vim is an open source command line text editor that may cause an overflow when parsing relative ex addresses. The issue occurs in the existing overflow check when the line number becomes negative. The impact is low, user interaction is required.
Risk Assessment
The risk to the organization is low as user interaction is required, and a crash may not occur in all situations.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade to version 9.0.2110 where the issue has been addressed. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.