CVE-2022-2042

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in Vim's skipwhite() function of the src/charset.c file. This flaw occurs because of an uninitialized attribute value and freed memory in the spell command. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering a heap use-after-free that causes an application to crash and corrupt memory.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a Low security impact because the "victim" has to run an untrusted file IN SCRIPT MODE. Someone who is running untrusted files in script mode is equivalent to someone just taking a random python script and running it.

For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.