Stack-based buffer overflow in Vim - CVE-2022-0629

 

Stack-based buffer overflow in Vim - CVE-2022-0629

Published: February 22, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU60775
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0629
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when using many composing characters in error message. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file, trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Vim
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
macOS
Isolation Segment
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-filesystem
vim
vim-debuginfo
vim-X11
vim-enhanced
vim-debugsource
vim-minimal
vim-common
app-editors/vim-core
app-editors/vim
app-editors/gvim
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2022-0629

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 8.2.4397
vim (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.14, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.7
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 3.0.8
vim-filesystem - update to 8.2-20
vim - update to 8.2-20
vim-debuginfo - update to 8.2-20
vim-X11 - update to 8.2-20
vim-enhanced - update to 8.2-20
vim-debugsource - update to 8.2-20
vim-minimal - update to 8.2-20
vim-common - update to 8.2-20
vim - addressed in versions 8.2.4428-1.fc34, 8.2.4428-1.fc35, 8.2.4460-1.fc34
app-editors/vim-core - update to 9.0.0060
app-editors/vim - update to 9.0.0060
app-editors/gvim - update to 9.0.0060
vim - update to 9.0.1160-1.1
macOS - update to 13.0 22A380

External References

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