CVE-2023-46246 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-q22m-h7m2-9mgm https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/9198c1f2b1ddecde22af918541e0de2a32f0f45a