CVE-2022-2207
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
1Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.
Un Desbordamiento de Búfer en la Región Heap de la Memoria en el repositorio de GitHub vim/vim versiones anteriores a 8.2
It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly processing Vim buffers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform illegal memory access and expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that Vim was using freed memory when dealing with regular expressions inside a visual selection. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly achieve code execution with user privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2022-06-26 CVE Reserved
- 2022-06-27 CVE Published
- 2024-08-03 CVE Updated
- 2024-08-03 First Exploit
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CAPEC
References (6)
URL | Tag | Source |
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URL | Date | SRC |
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https://huntr.dev/bounties/05bc6051-4dc3-483b-ae56-cf23346b97b9 | 2024-08-03 |
URL | Date | SRC |
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https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0971c7a4e537ea120a6bb2195960be8d0815e97b | 2023-11-07 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
Vim Search vendor "Vim" | Vim Search vendor "Vim" for product "Vim" | < 8.2.5162 Search vendor "Vim" for product "Vim" and version " < 8.2.5162" | - |
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Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject" | Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" | 35 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "35" | - |
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Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject" | Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" | 36 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "36" | - |
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