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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-41957

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 8/01/2024 6:15:29 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Added CWE

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. CWE-415
Added Description

								
							
							
						
Vim is an open source command line text editor. Vim < v9.1.0647 has double free in src/alloc.c:616. When closing a window, the corresponding tagstack data will be cleared and freed. However a bit later, the quickfix list belonging to that window will also be cleared and if that quickfix list points to the same tagstack data, Vim will try to free it again, resulting in a double-free/use-after-free access exception. Impact is low since the user must intentionally execute vim with several non-default flags,
but it may cause a crash of Vim. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.0647
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/8a0bbe7b8aad6f8da28dee218c01bc8a0185a [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-f9cr-gv85-hcr4 [No types assigned]