CVE-2024-41957 (GCVE-0-2024-41957)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-01 21:41 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:13
VLAI
Title
Vim double free in src/alloc.c:616
Summary
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
Severity
4.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vim vim Affected: < 9.1.0647
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