CVE-2023-48234: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vim is an open source command line text editor. When getting the count for a normal mode z command, it may overflow for large counts given. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `58f9befca1` which has been included in release version 9.0.2109. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only; version 39 only
• Vim Vim: before 9.0.2109 (fixed in 9.0.2109)

Published 2023-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-23.