CVE-2022-2522

Publication date 25 July 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 9.0.0061.

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Status

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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
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

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	Upstream: b9e7173

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-6302-1
Vim vulnerabilities
21 August 2023