CVE-2022-2816 Out-of-bounds Read in vim/vim

What is CVE-2022-2816?

CVE-2022-2816 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 15 Aug 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Out-of-bounds Read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0212.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2816?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Vim Vim.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2816?

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-2022-2816 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2816 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-2816, AZL-10553, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2816, GHSA-p5pv-5v23-r8xc, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2816.