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CVE-2022-2598 (GCVE-0-2022-2598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:46
VLAI
Title
Out-of-bounds Write to API in vim/vim
Summary
Out-of-bounds Write to API in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0100.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write to API
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vim vim/vim Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.0100 (custom)
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