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OESA-2024-2026 (CVE-2024-43374)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2024-08-23 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:07 – Source website

Summary

vim security update

Details

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

The UNIX editor Vim prior to version 9.1.0678 has a use-after-free error in argument list handling. When adding a new file to the argument list, this triggers Buf* autocommands. If in such an autocommand the buffer that was just opened is closed (including the window where it is shown), this causes the window structure to be freed which contains a reference to the argument list that we are actually modifying. Once the autocommands are completed, the references to the window and argument list are no longer valid and as such cause an use-after-free. Impact is low since the user must either intentionally add some unusual autocommands that wipe a buffer during creation (either manually or by sourcing a malicious plugin), but it will crash Vim. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0678.(CVE-2024-43374)

Severity

4.5 (Medium)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43374	ADVISORY

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}

CVE-2024-43374 (GCVE-0-2024-43374)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-15 23:47 – Updated: 2024-09-20 16:03

Title

Vim heap-use-after-free in src/arglist.c:207

Summary

The UNIX editor Vim prior to version 9.1.0678 has a use-after-free error in argument list handling. When adding a new file to the argument list, this triggers `Buf*` autocommands. If in such an autocommand the buffer that was just opened is closed (including the window where it is shown), this causes the window structure to be freed which contains a reference to the argument list that we are actually modifying. Once the autocommands are completed, the references to the window and argument list are no longer valid and as such cause an use-after-free. Impact is low since the user must either intentionally add some unusual autocommands that wipe a buffer during creation (either manually or by sourcing a malicious plugin), but it will crash Vim. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0678.

Severity

4.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-16 16:10 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GH…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0a6e57b09bc8c76…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/08/15/6
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024092…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
vim	vim	Affected: < 9.1.0678

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