Buffer Overflow Affecting vim/vim package, versions [,9.0.0060)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIMVIM-2964178
  • published31 Jul 2022
  • disclosed25 Jul 2022
  • creditxiaoge1001

Introduced: 25 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-2522  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vim/vim to version 9.0.0060 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow in ins_compl_infercase_gettext() at src/insexpand.c.

PoC:

export CFLAGS="-g3 -fsanitize=address -fno-common -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fPIC"
export LDFLAGS="-g3 -fsanitize=address -fno-common -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fPIC"
./configure
make -j4
./src/vim -u NONE -i NONE -n -m -X -Z -e -s -S ./poc_hbor4_s.dat -c :qa!

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