Buffer Overflow Affecting vim/vim package, versions [,8.2.4956)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.52% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIMVIM-2933578
  • published22 Jun 2022
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditTDHX ICS Security

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2022-1720  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vim/vim to version 8.2.4956 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in the function grab_file_name at findfile.c:1947.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1