vulnerability

NotepadPlusPlus: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2023-40166)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 25, 2023
Added
Sep 11, 2023
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Versions 8.5.6 and prior are vulnerable to heap buffer read overflow in `FileManager::detectLanguageFromTextBegining `. The exploitability of this issue is not clear. Potentially, it may be used to leak internal memory allocation information. As of time of publication, no known patches are available in existing versions of Notepad++.

Solution

notepadplusplus-upgrade-latest
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