CVE-2022-0392

Publication date 28 January 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim prior to 8.2.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.3
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.11
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.10
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

ccdm94

vulnerable function introduced in ec2da36ca48 (>= 8.0.0210).

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
vim	Upstream: 806d037

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5801-1
Vim vulnerabilities
12 January 2023

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0392

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