CVE-2022-0318

Publication date 21 January 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim prior to 8.2.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.7
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.14
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm4
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

ccdm94

the patch for CVE-2022-0318 causes one of the utf8 tests to start failing, which in turn causes build failures as well. Commit fc6ccebea66 addresses this issue and updates the test.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
vim

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

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

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