CVE-2022-2571

Publication date 1 August 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0101.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

in versions prior than focal, the suspected code can be found in src/edit.c. A more careful analysis would be needed to determine if those versions are vulnerable.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: a6f9e30

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
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