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CVE-2022-4141

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Date: November 24, 2022

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

Language: VIM SCRIPT

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541f

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16

Url: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-4141

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6ZNKVN4GICORTVFKVCM4MSOXCYWNHUC/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AZ3JMSUCR6Y7626RDWQ2HNSUFIQOJ33G/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00015.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4141

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4141

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AZ3JMSUCR6Y7626RDWQ2HNSUFIQOJ33G/

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6ZNKVN4GICORTVFKVCM4MSOXCYWNHUC/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-4141

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-122

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v9.0.0947

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

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