CVE-2022-1619

Publication date 8 May 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function cmdline_erase_chars in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4899. This vulnerabilities are capable of crashing software, modify memory, and possible remote execution

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.9
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm6 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm5 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: ef02f16

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

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5460-1
Vim vulnerabilities
6 June 2022

USN-5613-1
Vim vulnerabilities
15 September 2022

USN-5613-2
Vim regression
19 September 2022