CVE-2023-0433

Publication date 21 January 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1225.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 22.10 kinetic
Fixed 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.4
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.12
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.11
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes

ccdm94

for focal and earlier, the vulnerable function can be found in file ‘src/ops.c’. Commit 11abd095 is the one that caused the location of the vulnerable function to change to file ‘src/textformat.c’.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H