Vim: Heap Buffer Overflow when Loading a Spell File
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.5epss 0.1%
from disclosure to weapon8 days
Published on NVDAug 11
1st PoC+8d
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0846, set_sofo() in src/spellfile.c reuses sl_sal_first[] without resetting values left by set_sal_first(), so a crafted spell file containing an SN_SAL section before an SN_SOFO section causes under-counted mapping lists and attacker-influenced writes beyond a heap allocation. This issue is fixed in version 9.2.0846.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
vim · vimpublic PoCs found — 1
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