Bug 2242926 (CVE-2023-5441) - CVE-2023-5441 vim: NULL pointer dereference in screen_line() in src/screen.c
Summary: CVE-2023-5441 vim: NULL pointer dereference in screen_line() in src/screen.c
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-5441
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2242927
Blocks: 2242840
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-10-09 18:27 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-10-16 17:43 UTC (History)
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A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in Vim. This flaw allows an attacker who can trick a user into processing a specially crafted file to trigger the NULL pointer dereference, causing the application to crash.
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-10-09 18:27:48 UTC 
NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 20d161ace307e28690229b68584f2d84556f8960.

References:
https://huntr.dev/bounties/b54cbdf5-3e85-458d-bb38-9ea2c0b669f2

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/20d161ace307e28690229b68584f2d84556f8960
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-10-09 18:34:59 UTC 
Created vim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2242927]
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