usn-5516-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2022-07-13 20:16
Modified
2026-06-25 10:46
Summary
vim vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2022-2000",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2022-2207",
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                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "medium",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2022-2210",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "vim",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-athena",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-athena-py2",
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          },
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            "binary_name": "vim-common",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-gnome",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-gtk",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-gtk-py2",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-gtk3",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-gtk3-py2",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-gui-common",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-nox",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-nox-py2",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-runtime",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "vim-tiny",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "vim",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra/xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm11"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2:7.4.712-2ubuntu4",
        "2:7.4.826-1ubuntu1",
        "2:7.4.826-1ubuntu2",
        "2:7.4.826-1ubuntu3",
        "2:7.4.963-1ubuntu1",
        "2:7.4.963-1ubuntu4",
        "2:7.4.963-1ubuntu5",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.1",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.3",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.4",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm2",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm3",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm4",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm5",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm6",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm7",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm8",
        "2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm10"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker\ncould potentially use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive\ninformation, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.\n",
  "id": "USN-5516-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-25T10:46:06Z",
  "published": "2022-07-13T20:16:51Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5516-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2207"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2210"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "vim vulnerabilities",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2000",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2207",
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2210"
  ]
}



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