RHSA-2022:0366 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · February 2, 2022

Updated · July 3, 2026

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

vim: heap-based buffer overflow in win_redr_status() in drawscreen.c (CVE-2021-3872)
vim: illegal memory access in find_start_brace() in cindent.c when C-indenting (CVE-2021-3984)
vim: heap-based buffer overflow in find_help_tags() in help.c (CVE-2021-4019)
vim: use-after-free in win_linetabsize() (CVE-2021-4192)
vim: out-of-bound read in getvcol() (CVE-2021-4193)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.