CVE-2023-0051 (GCVE-0-2023-0051)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-09 15:42
VLAI
Title
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim
Summary
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1144.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vim vim/vim Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.1144 (custom)
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