Bug 2148991 (CVE-2022-4141) - CVE-2022-4141 vim: invalid memory access in substitute with function
Summary: CVE-2022-4141 vim: invalid memory access in substitute with function
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-4141
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2148992 2156265
Blocks: 2148821
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-11-28 12:48 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:28 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: vim 9.0.0947
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A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Vim due to invalid memory access. This issue could allow an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering an out-of-bounds write that causes an application to crash, possibly executing code and corrupting memory.
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Description TEJ RATHI 2022-11-28 12:48:20 UTC
The target's backtrace indicates that libc has detected a heap error or that the target was executing a heap function when it stopped. This could be due to heap corruption, passing a bad pointer to a heap function such as free(), etc. Since heap errors might include buffer overflows, use-after-free situations, etc. they are generally considered exploitable.

https://huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541f
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5

Comment 1 TEJ RATHI 2022-11-28 12:50:00 UTC
Created vim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2148992]


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