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

CVE-2022-4141

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.

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Affected products

Vim/Vimllm-fuzzy2 versions
<=9.0.0946+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=9.0.0946
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords36 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%20Leap%20Micro%205.3 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1 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-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-ESPOS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-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%20Micro%205.3 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%20SP4 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Real%20Time%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-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-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-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%20SP1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.2 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.2 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.1 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.2 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209 pkg:rpm/suse/vim&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1+ 35 more
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.1234-17.12.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/vim/vim/commit/cc762a48d42b579fb7bdec2c614636b830342dd5nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev/bounties/20ece512-c600-45ac-8a84-d0931e05541fnvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00015.htmlnvd
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00023.htmlnvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AZ3JMSUCR6Y7626RDWQ2HNSUFIQOJ33G/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/V6ZNKVN4GICORTVFKVCM4MSOXCYWNHUC/nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-16nvd

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