Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim-minimal (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-VIMMINIMAL-12309863
published1 Sept 2025
disclosed10 May 2022

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Introduced: 10 May 2022

CVE-2022-1621 (opens in a new tab) CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

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

Heap buffer overflow in vim_strncpy find_word in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4919. This vulnerability is capable of crashing software, Bypass Protection Mechanism, Modify Memory, and possible remote execution