RHSA-2022:5242 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 1, 2022

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in vim (CVE-2022-0554)

  • vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow occurs in vim (CVE-2022-0943)

  • vim: Out-of-range Pointer Offset (CVE-2022-1420)

  • vim: heap buffer overflow (CVE-2022-1621)

  • vim: buffer over-read (CVE-2022-1629)

  • vim: use after free in utf_ptr2char (CVE-2022-1154)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:5242 — Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update | PulseLinux