High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 25, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-2522

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0061.

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Affected products

Vim/Vimllm-fuzzy2 versions
<9.0.0061+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <9.0.0061
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords37 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/vim&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3 pkg:rpm/opensuse/vim&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4 pkg:rpm/opensuse/vim&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/opensuse/vim&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-BCL pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1+ 36 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0032-1.2
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0313-150000.5.25.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.0814-17.9.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/vim/vim/commit/5fa9f23a63651a8abdb074b4fc2ec9b1adc6b089nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com/vim/vim/commit/b9e717367c395490149495cf375911b5d9de889envdPatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev/bounties/3a2d83af-9542-4d93-8784-98b115135a22nvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev/bounties/3a2d83af-9542-4d93-8784-98b115135a22/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16nvd

News mentions

Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed
Help Net Security · Jul 23, 2026

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