Heap-based buffer overflow in Vim - CVE-2022-1621

 

Heap-based buffer overflow in Vim - CVE-2022-1621

Published: May 11, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU63041
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-2022-1621
CWE-ID: CWE-122
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. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file, trigger a heap-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
IBM Qradar SIEM
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Anolis OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Oracle Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
macOS
Migration Toolkit for Containers
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes
OpenShift Logging
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Red Hat OpenStack
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-minimal
vim-filesystem
vim-enhanced
vim-common
vim-X11
vim
vim-debuginfo
vim-debugsource
vim (Red Hat package)
app-editors/gvim
app-editors/vim
app-editors/vim-core
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
OpenShift Virtualization

How to mitigate CVE-2022-1621

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 8.2.4919
Migration Toolkit for Containers - update to 1.7.3
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes - update to 2.5.1
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes - update to 3.71
OpenShift Logging - addressed in versions 5.2.13, 5.3.10, 5.4.3
vim (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm5, 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm6, 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.9, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.9, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.1
vim-minimal - update to 8.0.1763-19.0.1
vim-filesystem - update to 8.0.1763-19.0.1
vim-enhanced - update to 8.0.1763-19.0.1
vim-common - update to 8.0.1763-19.0.1
vim-X11 - update to 8.0.1763-19.0.1
vim-X11 - update to 8.2-27
vim - update to 8.2-27
vim-common - update to 8.2-27
vim-debuginfo - update to 8.2-27
vim-debugsource - update to 8.2-27
vim-enhanced - update to 8.2-27
vim-minimal - update to 8.2-27
vim-filesystem - update to 8.2-27
vim (Red Hat package) - update to 8.2.2637-16.el9_0.2
vim - update to 8.2.4927-1.fc34
vim - addressed in versions 8.2.5172-1.1, 9.0.1160-1.1
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.1.1
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.11.0
OpenShift Virtualization - update to 4.11.0
IBM Qradar SIEM - addressed in versions 7.4.3 Fix Pack 8, 7.5.0 Update Pack 4
macOS - update to 13.0 22A380
Red Hat OpenStack - update to 16.2.z
app-editors/gvim - addressed in versions 9.0.0060, 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim - addressed in versions 9.0.0060, 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim-core - addressed in versions 9.0.0060, 9.0.1157

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