CVE-2023-48234
LowCVSS 2.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Elevated risk50th percentile — higher than 50% of all known CVEs
Summary
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When getting the count for a normal mode z command, it may overflow for large counts given, which may lead to a crash, although this does not happen in all situations.
Risk Assessment
The impact is low as user interaction is required, and a crash may not occur in all cases.
Recommendation
Users are advised to upgrade to version 9.0.2109, where the issue has been addressed. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Original NVD description (English source)
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When getting the count for a normal mode z command, it may overflow for large counts given. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `58f9befca1` which has been included in release version 9.0.2109. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.