Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-1175 - Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size 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-131
NVD
Published: 2023-03-04
Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1378.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Vim
12007

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    In this attack, the target software is given input that the attacker knows will be modified and expanded in size during processing. This attack relies on the target software failing to anticipate that the expanded data may exceed some internal limit, thereby creating a buffer overflow.

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