Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-41965 - Double Free vulnerability in VIM

047910
CVSS 4.2 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
LOW
local
high complexity
vim
CWE-415

Summary

Vim is an open source command line text editor. double-free in dialog_changed() in Vim < v9.1.0648. When abandoning a buffer, Vim may ask the user what to do with the modified buffer. If the user wants the changed buffer to be saved, Vim may create a new Untitled file, if the buffer did not have a name yet. However, when setting the buffer name to Unnamed, Vim will falsely free a pointer twice, leading to a double-free and possibly later to a heap-use-after-free, which can lead to a crash. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0648.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Vim
13468

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)