CVE-2022-4141

Publication date 25 November 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored change too intrusive
20.04 LTS focal Ignored change too intrusive
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored change too intrusive
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored change too intrusive
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored change too intrusive

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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