CVE-2022-3234 (GCVE-0-2022-3234)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-17 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 01:00
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vim/vim
Summary
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0483.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://huntr.dev/bounties/90fdf374-bf04-4386-8a2… | |
| https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/c249913edc35c0e… | |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022… | mailing-list |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16 | vendor-advisory |
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"current_release_date": "2026-08-29T02:39:16Z",
"cve": "CVE-2022-3234",
"id": "CVE-2022-3234",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T03:31:42Z",
"product_status:known_affected": "259",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "2",
"product_status:recommended": "481",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2022-3234",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2022-3234.json",
"version": "50"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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