CVE-2023-48237
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. In affected versions when shifting lines in operator pending mode and using a very large value, it may be possible to overflow the size of integer.
Risk Assessment
Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations.
Recommendation
Users are advised to upgrade to version 9.0.2112, which has addressed the issue. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
Vim is an open source command line text editor. In affected versions when shifting lines in operator pending mode and using a very large value, it may be possible to overflow the size of integer. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `6bf131888` which has been included in version 9.0.2112. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.