CVE-2024-41965

Published: August 3, 2024Last modified: December 20, 2024

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.

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• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b29f4abcd4b3382fa746edd1d0562b7b48c
• https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-46pw-v7qw-xc2f