Security Advisory

CVE-2023-40164

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-25 20:12:58
Last updated 2024-10-02 14:52:01
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

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++.