AZL-31702

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Import Source

https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-31702.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-31702

Upstream

CVE-2023-46246

Published

2023-10-27T19:15:41Z

Modified

2026-04-01T05:10:46.434574Z

Severity

5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

CVE-2023-46246 affecting package vim for versions less than 9.0.2112-1

Details

Vim is an improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Heap-use-after-free in memory allocated in the function ga_grow_inner in in the file src/alloc.c at line 748, which is freed in the file src/ex_docmd.c in the function do_cmdline at line 1010 and then used again in src/cmdhist.c at line 759. When using the :history command, it's possible that the provided argument overflows the accepted value. Causing an Integer Overflow and potentially later an use-after-free. This vulnerability has been patched in version 9.0.2068.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46246

Affected packages

Azure Linux:2 / vim

Package

Name: vim
Purl: pkg:rpm/azure-linux/vim

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

9.0.2112-1

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-31702.json"