Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-1170 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in VIM

047910
CVSS 6.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
vim
CWE-122
NVD
Published: 2023-03-03
Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1376.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Vim
12005

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Forced Integer Overflow
    This attack forces an integer variable to go out of range. The integer variable is often used as an offset such as size of memory allocation or similarly. The attacker would typically control the value of such variable and try to get it out of range. For instance the integer in question is incremented past the maximum possible value, it may wrap to become a very small, or negative number, therefore providing a very incorrect value which can lead to unexpected behavior. At worst the attacker can execute arbitrary code.

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