CVE-2022-1616: high-severity vulnerability in vim/vim
Use after free in append_command in vim/vim
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.3epss 2.7%
Use after free in append_command in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4895. This vulnerability is capable of crashing software, Bypass Protection Mechanism, Modify Memory, and possible remote execution
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Affected products
vim · vim/vimRelated CVEs — vim/vim
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2022-0572HIGHHeap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vimEPSS 26.5%CVE-2022-0714HIGHHeap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vimEPSS 12.7%CVE-2022-1381HIGHglobal heap buffer overflow in skip_range in vim/vimEPSS 3.1%CVE-2022-1619MEDIUMHeap-based Buffer Overflow in function cmdline_erase_chars in vim/vimEPSS 2.6%CVE-2022-1621HIGHHeap buffer overflow in vim_strncpy find_word in vim/vimEPSS 2.4%CVE-2021-3968HIGHHeap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vimEPSS 2.3%
References
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d88934406c5375d88f8f1b65331c9f0cab68cc6chttps://huntr.dev/bounties/40f1d75f-fb2f-4281-b585-a41017f217e2https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00022.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00009.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00023.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6BY5P7ERZS7KXSBCGFCOXLMLGWUUJIH/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HIP7KG7TVS5YF3QREAY2GOGUT3YUBZAI/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUN33257RUM4RS2I4GZETKFSAXPETATG/https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-32https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16