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CVE-2022-2522

Published: 25 July 2022

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0061.

Notes

AuthorNote
rodrigo-zaiden
there is a conversation in the bugbounty link that says
that the correct fix is b9e71736 and not 5fa9f23a as
previously stated.
this issue is a side effect of CVE-2022-2343, that is, it
was inserted with commit caea6644 (version 9.0.0045) that
was added to fix CVE-2022-2343.
eslerm
backporting requires at least f9706e9 and c593bec

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
vim
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(changes too intrusive)
focal Ignored
(changes too intrusive)
jammy
Released (2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1)
trusty Ignored
(changes too intrusive)
upstream
Released (9.0.0060)
xenial Ignored
(changes too intrusive)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/b9e717367c395490149495cf375911b5d9de889e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H