CVE-2023-48236 Information

Description

Vim is an open source command line text editor. When using the z= command the user may overflow the count with values larger than MAX_INT. Impact is low user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This vulnerability has been addressed in commit 73b2d379 which has been included in release version 9.0.2111. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Reference

https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-pr4c-932v-8hx5 https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/73b2d3790cad5694fc0ed0db2926e4220c48d968