Moderate: vim security update

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: heap buffer overflow (CVE-2022-1621)
• vim: buffer over-read (CVE-2022-1629)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2083924 - CVE-2022-1621 vim: heap buffer overflow
• BZ - 2083931 - CVE-2022-1629 vim: buffer over-read

CVEs

• CVE-2022-1621
• CVE-2022-1629

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate