Name: CVE-2023-1170: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-03-03T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2023-1170, CWE-122, CVSS 6.6, EPSS 0.00495

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1376.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.6
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)
CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.3
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade vim	Mar 26, 2024	Mar 3, 2023
Amazon Linux Ami 2	—	Upgrade vim-enhancedUpgrade vim-X11Upgrade vim-dataUpgrade vim-filesystemUpgrade vim-debuginfoUpgrade vim-commonUpgrade vim-minimal	Apr 6, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Amazon_linux	—	Upgrade vim	Apr 6, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Amazon_linux_2023	—	Upgrade vim-commonUpgrade vim-dataUpgrade vim-debuginfoUpgrade vim-filesystemUpgrade vim-enhanced-debuginfoUpgrade vim-minimalUpgrade vim-enhancedUpgrade vim-common-debuginfoUpgrade vim-default-editorUpgrade vim-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade vim-debugsource	Feb 17, 2025	Mar 4, 2023
Debian	—	Upgrade vim	Jul 30, 2024	Mar 3, 2023
Dell Powerstore Dsa2023366	—	Upgrade Dell PowerStoreOS to the latest version	Oct 23, 2025	Oct 5, 2023
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp10	—	Upgrade vim-minimalUpgrade vim-commonUpgrade vim-filesystemUpgrade vim-enhanced	May 9, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp11	—	Upgrade vim-filesystemUpgrade vim-minimalUpgrade vim-enhancedUpgrade vim-common	Jul 5, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp9	—	Upgrade vim-filesystemUpgrade vim-commonUpgrade vim-minimalUpgrade vim-enhanced	May 10, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Mar 3, 2023
Suse	—	Upgrade vimUpgrade vim-smallUpgrade vim-dataUpgrade gvimUpgrade vim-data-common	Mar 20, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade vim-nox-py2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-noxUpgrade vim-tiny (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-gtk (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-tinyUpgrade vim-athenaUpgrade vim-gtkUpgrade vim-athena (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-athena-py2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-gtk3-py2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vimUpgrade vim-gtk-py2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade vim-gtk3Upgrade vim-nox (Ubuntu Pro)	Mar 22, 2023	Mar 3, 2023
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Mar 3, 2023

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CVSS Details

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