NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-VIM-2812657
  • published9 May 2022
  • disclosed8 May 2022

Introduced: 8 May 2022

CVE-2022-1620  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

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

NULL Pointer Dereference in function vim_regexec_string at regexp.c:2729 in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4901. NULL Pointer Dereference in function vim_regexec_string at regexp.c:2729 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted input.