Detections
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CVE-2023-48231
medium
Description
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When closing a window, vim may try to access already freed window structure. Exploitation beyond crashing the application has not been shown to be viable. This issue has been addressed in commit `25aabc2b` which has been included in release version 9.0.2106. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
References
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231227-0008/
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-8g46-v9ff-c765
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/25aabc2b8ee1e19ced6f4da9d866cf9378fc4c5a