vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-41965: vim -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 1, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Vim is an open source command line text editor. double-free in dialog_changed() in Vim < v9.1.0648. When abandoning a buffer, Vim may ask the user what to do with the modified buffer. If the user wants the changed buffer to be saved, Vim may create a new Untitled file, if the buffer did not have a name yet. However, when setting the buffer name to Unnamed, Vim will falsely free a pointer twice, leading to a double-free and possibly later to a heap-use-after-free, which can lead to a crash. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0648.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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