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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-4141: Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-4141: Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/25/2022
Created
05/05/2023
Added
05/04/2023
Modified
05/04/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-editors-gvim
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-editors-vim
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-editors-vim-core

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