Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-VIM-17498978
- published26 Jun 2026
- disclosed2 Sept 2024
Introduced: 2 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-45306 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim package and not the vim package as distributed by RHEL.
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Patch v9.1.0038 optimized how the cursor position is calculated and removed a loop, that verified that the cursor position always points inside a line and does not become invalid by pointing beyond the end of a line. Back then we assumed this loop is unnecessary. However, this change made it possible that the cursor position stays invalid and points beyond the end of a line, which would eventually cause a heap-buffer-overflow when trying to access the line pointer at the specified cursor position. It's not quite clear yet, what can lead to this situation that the cursor points to an invalid position. That's why patch v9.1.0707 does not include a test case. The only observed impact has been a program crash. This issue has been addressed in with the patch v9.1.0707. All users are advised to upgrade.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309275
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45306
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/396fd1ec2956307755392a1
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.1.0038
- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-wxf9-c5gx-qrwr
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241004-0007/