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CVE-2022-2581 (GCVE-0-2022-2581)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-01 14:12 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:39
VLAI
Title
Out-of-bounds Read in vim/vim
Summary
Out-of-bounds Read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0104.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
vim vim/vim Affected: unspecified , < 9.0.0104 (custom)
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