vim up to 9.0.0404 heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in vim. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2022-3234. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in vim (Word Processing Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0483.

The weakness was published 09/18/2022. The advisory is shared at huntr.dev. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-3234 since 09/16/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211239 (Fedora 37 : vim (2022-4bc60c32a2)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 9.0.0483 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch c249913edc35c0e666d783bfc21595cf9f7d9e0d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211239). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

• Word Processing Software

Name

• vim

Version

• 0.52
• 1.0
• 1.22
• 3.0
• 4.0
• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.3.011
• 6.3.025
• 6.3.030
• 6.3.044
• 6.3.081
• 6.4
• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.1.38
• 7.1.314
• 7.2
• 7.2a.10
• 8.0
• 8.0.0056
• 8.0.0322
• 8.0.0377
• 8.0.0378
• 8.0.1263
• 8.1.0881
• 8.1.1365
• 8.1.2135
• 8.1.2136
• 8.2
• 8.2.2348
• 8.2.3883
• 8.2.4646
• 8.2.4774
• 8.2.4919
• 8.2.4925
• 8.2.4938
• 8.2.4956
• 8.2.4959
• 9.0
• 9.0.0044
• 9.0.0045
• 9.0.0046
• 9.0.0060
• 9.0.0100
• 9.0.0101
• 9.0.0102
• 9.0.0104
• 9.0.0210
• 9.0.0211
• 9.0.0212
• 9.0.0217
• 9.0.0219
• 9.0.0220
• 9.0.0223
• 9.0.0224
• 9.0.0239
• 9.0.0245
• 9.0.0258
• 9.0.0259
• 9.0.0285
• 9.0.0321
• 9.0.0359
• 9.0.0389
• 9.0.0404

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/vim/vim/

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