RHSA-2022:0894 — Security Advisory

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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in block_insert() in src/ops.c (CVE-2022-0261)

• vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in utf_head_off() in mbyte.c (CVE-2022-0318)

• vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in init_ccline() in ex_getln.c (CVE-2022-0359)

• vim: Illegal memory access when copying lines in visual mode leads to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2022-0361)

• vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in getexmodeline() in ex_getln.c (CVE-2022-0392)

• vim: Use after free in src/ex_cmds.c (CVE-2022-0413)

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.