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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-48231: Use After Free

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-48231: Use After Free

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/16/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

Vim is an open source command line text editor. When closing a window, vim may try to access already freed window structure. Exploitation beyond crashing the application has not been shown to be viable. This issue has been addressed in commit `25aabc2b` which has been included in release version 9.0.2106. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-vim

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