CVE-2022-3278 (GCVE-0-2022-3278)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-22 18:28
VLAI
Title
NULL Pointer Dereference in vim/vim
Summary
NULL Pointer Dereference in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0552.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vim vim/vim Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.0552 (custom)
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