Out-of-bounds read in Vim - CVE-2022-2124

 

Out-of-bounds read in Vim - CVE-2022-2124

Published: June 27, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU64718
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 1.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2124
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in textobject.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.


Affected software

Vim
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
openSUSE Leap Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE Linux Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
macOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Protection
Dell Data Protection Central
cflinuxfs3
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Isolation Segment
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Dell Secure Connect Gateway
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk3-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package)
vim-athena (Ubuntu package)
vim-athena-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gnome (Ubuntu package)
vim-nox-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gnome-py2 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package)
vim-nox (Ubuntu package)
vim-enhanced
vim-filesystem
vim-X11
vim-minimal
vim-debugsource
vim-debuginfo
vim-common
vim
app-editors/gvim
app-editors/vim
app-editors/vim-core
vim-motif (Ubuntu package)
vim-data-common
gvim
gvim-debuginfo
vim-data
vim-small-debuginfo
vim-small
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
EMC ViPR SRM
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance

How to mitigate CVE-2022-2124

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 8.2.5120
macOS - addressed in versions 11.7 20G817, 12.6 21G115, 13.0 22A380
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-gtk3-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
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-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-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-athena-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-gnome (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.12
vim-nox-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-gtk-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
vim-gnome-py2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
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-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
cflinuxfs3 - update to 0.360.0
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 3.0.8
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) - update to 4.9.0.0
EMC ViPR SRM - update to 4.9.0.0
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.0.1
Dell Secure Connect Gateway - update to 5.14.00.16
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance - addressed in versions 7.0.401, 8.0.000
vim-enhanced - update to 8.2-37
vim-filesystem - update to 8.2-37
vim-X11 - update to 8.2-37
vim-minimal - update to 8.2-37
vim-debugsource - update to 8.2-37
vim-debuginfo - update to 8.2-37
vim-common - update to 8.2-37
vim - update to 8.2-37
vim - addressed in versions 8.2.5172-1.fc35, 8.2.5172-1.fc36
vim - addressed in versions 8.2.5172-1.1, 9.0.1160-1.1
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
vim-motif (Ubuntu package) - update to 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim-data-common - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
gvim - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
gvim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-data - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-small-debuginfo - update to 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
vim-small - update to 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
vim-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - update to 13.1.0.2.29

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