Use After Free Affecting vim/vim package, versions [,9.0.0213)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIMVIM-2987199
  • published18 Aug 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2022
  • creditjanette88

Introduced: 16 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2817  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vim/vim to version 9.0.0213 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the f_assert_fails() function in testing.c.

PoC:

cal assert_fails('c0',['','\1'])

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