CVE-2023-48237: 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. In affected versions when shifting lines in operator pending mode and using a very large value, it may be possible to overflow the size of integer. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in commit `6bf131888` which has been included in version 9.0.2112. 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 9.0.2112 (fixed in 9.0.2112)

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