High USN-6698-1 1 CVE

vim vulnerability

Published Mar 18, 2024 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Zhen Zhou discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service

Fixed packages 5

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS	vim	2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.22
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS	vim	2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.16
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS	vim	2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm16
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS	vim	2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS	vim	2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm8

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2024-22667

Vim before 9.0.2142 has a stack-based buffer overflow because did_set_langmap in map.c calls sprintf to write to the er…

vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux

Feb 5, 2024

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-22667