CVE-2022-1621

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Published 2022-07-01 · Modified 2022-08-05

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Moderate: vim security update

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description vim: heap buffer overflow in vim_strncpy CVSS v3: 7.3 (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H) Errata / fixed releases ProductPackageAdvisoryReleased Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8vim-2:8.0.1763-19.el8_6.2RHSA-2022:53192022-06-30T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8vim-2:8.0.1763-19.el8_6.2RHSA-2022:53192022-06-30T00:00:00Z Red Hat Enterprise Linux…

Description

vim: heap buffer overflow in vim_strncpy

CVSS v3: 7.3 (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

Product	Package	Advisory	Released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`vim-2:8.0.1763-19.el8_6.2`	RHSA-2022:5319	2022-06-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`vim-2:8.0.1763-19.el8_6.2`	RHSA-2022:5319	2022-06-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`vim-2:8.2.2637-16.el9_0.2`	RHSA-2022:5242	2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	`vim-2:8.2.2637-16.el9_0.2`	RHSA-2022:5242	2022-07-01T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	`vim-2:8.0.1763-19.el8_6.2`	RHSA-2022:5319	2022-06-30T00:00:00Z

Package state

Product	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	`vim`	Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	`vim`	Out of support scope

Apply commands

bash fix

Apply RHSA-2022:5319 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

yum update -y vim
# or:
dnf upgrade -y vim

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:9.0.0135-1`
sid	Fixed	`2:9.0.0135-1`
forky	Fixed	`2:9.0.0135-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Fixed	`2:9.0.0135-1`

AlmaLinux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`vim-X11-8.2.2637-16.el9_0.2.aarch64.rpm`
8	Fixed	`vim-filesystem-8.0.1763-19.el8_6.2.noarch.rpm`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.