RHSA-2022:5942 — Security Advisory

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.

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

Security Fix(es):

• vim: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2022-1785)

• vim: out-of-bounds write in vim_regsub_both() in regexp.c (CVE-2022-1897)

• vim: buffer over-read in utf_ptr2char() in mbyte.c (CVE-2022-1927)

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.