CVE-2022-4141 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow in VIM

CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer OverflowCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write7 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 88.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
VIM VIMVIMFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedNov 25

Description

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5vim/vim_vimunspecified — 9.0.0947
▶Debianvim/vim< 2:8.2.2434-3+deb11u2+3
▶NVDvim/vim9.0.0946

Also affects: Fedora 36, 37

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: huntr.dev ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2022-4141: Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9↗2022-11-25
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GHSA
GHSA-w2q9-j8v8-2gf2: The target's backtrace indicates that libc has detected a heap error or that the target was executing a heap function when it stopped↗2022-11-25
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CVEList
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim↗2022-11-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
vim: invalid memory access in substitute with function↗2022-11-25
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Microsoft
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim↗2022-11-08
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Debian
CVE-2022-4141: vim - Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker...↗2022
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