vim heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in vim. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-4141. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in vim (Word Processing Software) (affected version not known). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

The weakness was published 11/25/2022. The advisory is available at huntr.dev. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-4141 since 11/25/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 211280 (Fedora 37 : vim (2022-1e14f3ae45)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying the patch cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (211280). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
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CNA Base Score: 7.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 211280
Nessus Name: Fedora 37 : vim (2022-1e14f3ae45)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5

Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-4141 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-4141
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-214370

Entryinfo

Created: 11/25/2022 16:45
Updated: 11/05/2025 13:08
Changes: 11/25/2022 16:45 (49), 12/23/2022 10:18 (1), 12/23/2022 10:24 (12), 11/16/2024 12:29 (17), 04/28/2025 16:11 (3), 11/05/2025 13:08 (2)
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