CVE-2023-2426

Publication date 29 April 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1499.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 23.04 lunar
Fixed 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.8
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

issue was likely introduced around versions 8.2.1665 (commit 635414dd) and 8.2.2813 (commit bb01a1ef), that is, affects Ubuntu versions starting from jammy. PoC easily reproduces on affected versions.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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