Bug 2116868 (CVE-2022-2598)

Summary: CVE-2022-2598 vim: Undefined Behavior for Input to API in vim
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gchamoul, jburrell, karsten, zdohnal
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A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to Illegal memory access and leads to a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution.
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Bug Depends On: 2116878, 2116881    
Bug Blocks: 2113802    

Description Sandipan Roy 2022-08-09 13:19:43 UTC
Undefined Behavior for Input to API in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0100.

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4e677b9c40ccbc5f090971b31dc2fe07bf05541d
https://huntr.dev/bounties/2f08363a-47a2-422d-a7de-ce96a89ad08e

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-08-09 13:34:36 UTC
Created vim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2116878]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2116881]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-09-02 09:55:48 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-2598