CVE-2023-40031 Information

Description

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Versions 8.5.6 and prior are vulnerable to heap buffer write overflow in Utf8_16_Read::convert. This issue may lead to arbitrary code execution. As of time of publication no known patches are available in existing versions of Notepad++.

Reference

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-092_Notepad__/