NULL pointer dereference in Vim - CVE-2022-2874

Vulnerability identifier: #VU66629

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-2022-2874

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in vim9compile.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim top open a specially crafted file and crash the application.

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

Install update from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 9.0.0223
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim-athena (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim-nox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
xxd (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim-runtime (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 3.0.15
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-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-small - update to 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
vim-small-debuginfo - update to 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
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
app-editors/gvim - update to 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim - update to 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim-core - update to 9.0.1157
vim - update to 9.0.1160-1.1
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - update to 13.1.0.2.29

• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4875d6ab068f09df88d24d81de40dcd8d56e243d
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/95f97dfe-247d-475d-9740-b7adc71f4c79

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Vim
• SUSE update for vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell VxRail
• SUSE update for vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell VxRail Appliance components
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Secure Connect Gateway
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Cloud Tiering Appliance
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
• Gentoo update for Vim, gVim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell EMC SRM and Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Data Protection Central
• Ubuntu update for vim
• VMware Tanzu products update for Vim
• Amazon Linux AMI update for vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data