{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2022-01-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in block_insert() in src/ops.c",
    "id" : "2044607",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044607"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-787",
  "details" : [ "Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.", "A heap based out-of-bounds write flaw was found in vim's ops.c. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user to open a crafted file triggering an out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is capable of crashing software, modify memory, and possible code execution." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 are not affected because the vulnerable code is not present in our code base.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-03-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:0894",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "vim-2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-03-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:0894",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "vim-2:8.0.1763-16.el8_5.12"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "vim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0261\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0261" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-0261",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}