CVE-2023-0433

Publication date 21 January 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1225.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.12
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.11
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm15 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm6 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

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for focal and earlier, the vulnerable function can be found in file 'src/ops.c'. Commit 11abd095 is the one that caused the location of the vulnerable function to change to file 'src/textformat.c'.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: 11977f9

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H