NULL pointer dereference in Vim - CVE-2022-2980

Vulnerability identifier: #VU66786

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-2022-2980

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 within the do_mouse() function in mouse.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Vim
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
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SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
openSUSE Leap Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
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Oracle Solaris
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Ubuntu
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openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
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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-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-X11
vim-filesystem
vim
vim-common
vim-enhanced
vim-minimal
vim-debugsource
vim-debuginfo
vim-motif (Ubuntu package)
vim-data
vim-data-common
gvim
gvim-debuginfo
vim-small-debuginfo
vim-small
app-editors/vim
app-editors/vim-core
app-editors/gvim
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
EMC ViPR SRM
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance

Install update from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 9.0.0259
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
cflinuxfs3 - update to 0.360.0
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 3.0.8
EMC ViPR SRM - update to 4.9.0.0
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) - 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 - update to 7.0.411
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 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-X11 - update to 8.2-54
vim-filesystem - update to 8.2-54
vim - update to 8.2-54
vim-common - update to 8.2-54
vim-enhanced - update to 8.2-54
vim-minimal - update to 8.2-54
vim-debugsource - update to 8.2-54
vim-debuginfo - update to 8.2-54
vim-motif (Ubuntu package) - update to 2:9.0.0242-1ubuntu1.3
vim - update to 9.0.412-1.fc37
vim-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-data - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-data-common - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
gvim - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
gvim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-small-debuginfo - update to 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-small - update to 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
app-editors/vim - update to 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim-core - update to 9.0.1157
app-editors/gvim - 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/80525751c5ce9ed82c41d83faf9ef38667bf61b1
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/6e7b12a5-242c-453d-b39e-9625d563b0ea

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Vim
• SUSE update for vim
• SUSE update for vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Secure Connect Gateway
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Cloud Tiering Appliance
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell EMC VxRail Appliance
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
• Ubuntu update for vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Cloud Foundry Foundation cflinuxfs3
• Gentoo update for Vim, gVim
• VMware Tanzu products update for Vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell EMC SRM and Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Data Protection Central
• openEuler update for vim
• Amazon Linux AMI update for vim
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 
• Fedora 37 update for vim