A use-after-free vulnerability was found in Vim in the skipwhite function in the charset.c file. This issue occurs because an already freed memory is used when a specially crafted input is processed. This flaw allows an attacker who can trick a user into opening a specially crafted file into triggering the use-after-free, and cause the application to crash, possibly executing code and corrupting memory.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | vim | 2022-10-17 20:22 | ALAS-2022-1639 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | vim | 2022-10-17 21:46 | ALAS2-2022-1868 |
Amazon Linux 2023 | vim | 2023-02-17 20:48 | ALAS2023-2023-098 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |