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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2023· Updated Oct 2, 2024

Notepad++ global buffer read overflow in nsCodingStateMachine::NextState

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++.

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