Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim-common  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-VIMCOMMON-2812991
  • published9 May 2022
  • disclosed7 May 2022

Introduced: 7 May 2022

CVE-2022-1616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-common package and not the vim-common package as distributed by Centos.

Use after free in append_command in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4895. This vulnerability is capable of crashing software, Bypass Protection Mechanism, Modify Memory, and possible remote execution