Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-48231 — cbl2 vim 9.0.2112-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- cbl2 vim 9.0.2112-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 9.0.2112-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-48231
- EchelonGraph score
- 4.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by GitHub, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-48231, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).