Bug 1199435 (CVE-2022-1621)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2022-1621: vim: heap buffer overflow
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Thomas Leroy <thomas.leroy>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Zoltan Balogh <zbalogh>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/331173/
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Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Thomas Leroy 2022-05-11 11:20:04 UTC

rh#2083924

Heap buffer overflow in vim_strncpy find_word in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4919. This vulnerability is capable of crashing software, Bypass Protection Mechanism, Modify Memory, and possible remote execution.

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7c824682d2028432ee082703ef0ab399867a089b

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083924
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2022-1621
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7c824682d2028432ee082703ef0ab399867a089b
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-1621
https://huntr.dev/bounties/520ce714-bfd2-4646-9458-f52cd22bb2fb

Comment 1 Thomas Leroy 2022-05-11 11:21:04 UTC

No crash on our codestreams.