NULL pointer dereference in Vim - CVE-2022-3153

 

NULL pointer dereference in Vim - CVE-2022-3153

Published: September 11, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU67160
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-2022-3153
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 within the vim_regcomp() function in regexp.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

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 OpenStack Cloud
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
Oracle Solaris
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
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-runtime (Ubuntu package)
xxd (Ubuntu package)
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package)
vim-nox (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package)
vim-athena (Ubuntu package)
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-gvim
vim
gvim
vim-data-common
gvim-debuginfo
vim-data
vim-debuginfo
vim-debugsource
vim-small
vim-small-debuginfo
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

How to mitigate CVE-2022-3153

Install update from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 9.0.0404
vim-runtime (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
xxd (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 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
vim-nox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.17, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.11
vim-gtk3 (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-athena (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
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 - update to 7.0.411
vim-gvim - update to 9.0.0417
vim - update to 9.0.0417
gvim - 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-debuginfo - 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 - 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-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.0.0814-17.9.1, 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-small - update to 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
vim-small-debuginfo - update to 9.0.0814-150000.5.28.1
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

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