NVD - CVE-2023-40164

Description

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Versions 8.5.6 and prior are vulnerable to global buffer read overflow in `nsCodingStateMachine::NextStater`. The exploitability of this issue is not clear. Potentially, it may be used to leak internal memory allocation information. As of time of publication, no known patches are available in existing versions of Notepad++.

Metrics

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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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HyperlinkResourcehttps://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-092_Notepad__/ExploitThird Party Advisoryhttps://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-092_Notepad__/ExploitThird Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSourceCWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')GitHub, Inc.

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch\ to CPE 2.2

Change History

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