Vulnerability CVE-2023-48236


Published: 2023-11-16   Modified: 2023-11-17

Description:
Vim is an open source command line text editor. When using the z= command, the user may overflow the count with values larger
than MAX_INT. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This vulnerability has been addressed in commit `73b2d379` which has been included in release version 9.0.2111. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

 References:
https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-pr4c-932v-8hx5
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/73b2d3790cad5694fc0ed0db2926e4220c48d968

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