vim up to 9.0.0579 stack-based overflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in vim. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes stack-based overflow. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-3324. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in vim (Word Processing Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Stack-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0598.

The weakness was shared 09/28/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at huntr.dev. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-3324 since 09/26/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not 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 9.0.0598 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 8279af514ca7e5fd3c31cf13b0864163d1a0bfeb 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). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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
• 9.0.0483
• 9.0.0490
• 9.0.0530
• 9.0.0552
• 9.0.0577
• 9.0.0579

License

• open-source

Website

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

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