NULL pointer dereference in Vim - CVE-2022-1674

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NULL pointer dereference in Vim - CVE-2022-1674

Published: May 20, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU63491
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1674
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file and perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Vim
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
macOS
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Isolation Segment
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Voice Gateway
vim-nox (Ubuntu package)
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package)
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-athena (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package)
vim-gnome (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gnome-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-athena-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk3-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-nox-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-common
vim-X11
vim
vim-debuginfo
vim-debugsource
vim-enhanced
vim-minimal
vim-filesystem
app-editors/vim
app-editors/gvim
app-editors/vim-core
vim-motif (Ubuntu package)
cflinuxfs3
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2022-1674

Install update from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 8.2.4938
Voice Gateway - update to 1.0.8.12
vim-nox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5, 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5, 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5, 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim-athena (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5, 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5
vim-gnome (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.13, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.5, 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim-gnome-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-gtk-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-athena-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-gtk3-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-nox-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
cflinuxfs3 - update to 0.360.0
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 3.0.8
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.0.1
vim-common - update to 8.2-27
vim-X11 - update to 8.2-27
vim - 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 - addressed in versions 8.2.4969-1.fc35, 8.2.4969-1.fc36, 8.2.4975-1.fc34, 8.2.4975-1.fc35
vim - addressed in versions 8.2.5172-1.1, 9.0.1160-1.1
app-editors/vim - addressed in versions 9.0.0060, 9.0.1157
app-editors/gvim - addressed in versions 9.0.0060, 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim-core - addressed in versions 9.0.0060, 9.0.1157
vim-motif (Ubuntu package) - update to 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
macOS - update to 13.0 22A380

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