CVE-2022-4141

Heap based buffer overflow in vim/vim 9.0.0946 and below by allowing an attacker to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Analyzed - security@huntr.dev

Published

2022-11-25

Last modified

2025-11-03

Weaknesses

CWE-122, CWE-787

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Neovim (Neovim)
• Vim (Vim)
• Vimvim (Vim)

References

• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00015.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AZ3JMSUCR6Y7626RDWQ2HN…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6ZNKVN4GICORTVFKVCM4M…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00023.html