CVE-2022-2522

Publication date 25 July 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
20.04 LTS focal Ignored changes too intrusive
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored changes too intrusive
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored changes too intrusive
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was ignored [changes too intrusive]

Notes

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

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

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

References

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