CVE-2022-0213

Publication date 14 January 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

vim is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.7
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.14
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm9

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Notes

ccdm94

in bionic and earlier vulnerable code is in src/screen.c instead of src/drawscreen.c

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: de05bb2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.6 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H