Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVE-2021-3973
Summary
vim is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow
- LOW
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
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Advisory Timeline
- Published