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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-48237: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-48237: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/16/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

Vim is an open source command line text editor. In affected versions when shifting lines in operator pending mode and using a very large value, it may be possible to overflow the size of integer. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `6bf131888` which has been included in version 9.0.2112. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-vim

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