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Buffer Over-read in vim/vim

Published Jun 23, 2022

Description

Buffer Over-read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

All versions of Vim shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are affected, because of the presence of vulnerable code in our code-base. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a Low security impact because the "victim" has to run an untrusted file IN SCRIPT MODE. Someone who is running untrusted files in script mode is equivalent to someone just taking a random python script and running it. Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 are Out-of-Support-Scope for Low/Moderate flaws, the issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates for RHEL-6,7. Only Important and Critical severity flaws will be addressed at this time. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle & Updates Policy: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Red Hat mitigation

Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner @huntrdev
Published Jun 23, 2022
Updated Aug 3, 2024
Reserved Jun 22, 2022
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jun 23, 2022