CVE-2023-40036

Summary

CVE-2023-40036 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting the free and open-source source code editor, Notepad++. The issue lies in the `CharDistributionAnalysis::HandleOneChar` function, which contains a global buffer read overflow. This vulnerability, present in Notepad++ versions 8.5.6 and earlier, may potentially be exploited to leak internal memory allocation information. However, the exploitability of this issue remains unclear. At the moment, no patches have been released to remediate this vulnerability.

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