CVE-2022-1769 Buffer Over-read in vim/vim

Medium 6.6 Published 17 May 2022 Updated 3 Aug 2024

A buffer over-read in Vim allows attackers to cause a denial of service or disclose sensitive memory contents via crafted input.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2022-1769?

CVE-2022-1769 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Macos, published on 17 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer Over-read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4974.

Weakness: CWE-125, CWE-126

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1769?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Apple Macos, Fedoraproject Fedora, Vim Vim.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1769?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-1769 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1769 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Apple Macos vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as AZL-9788, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1769, GHSA-9526-q7c5-6pc6.