vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2023-48235: Security patch for vim (ALAS-2024-1902)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 16, 2023 | Jan 9, 2024 | May 21, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 16, 2023
Added
Jan 9, 2024
Modified
May 21, 2025
Description
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When parsing relative ex addresses one may unintentionally cause an
overflow. Ironically this happens in the existing overflow check, because the line number becomes negative and LONG_MAX - lnum will cause the overflow. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `060623e` which has been included in release version 9.0.2110. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-vim
References
Rapid7 Labs
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