CVE-2021-4166

Summary

CVECVE-2021-4166
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-25 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:40:00 UTC
Descriptionvim is vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Macos All All All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 All All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2020-001 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-001 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-002 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-003 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-004 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-005 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-006 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-007 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2021-008 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2022-001 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2022-002 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2022-003 All All
Operating System Apple Macos 10.15.7 security_update_2022-004 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2020-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-002 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-003 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-004 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-005 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-006 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-007 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-008 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2022-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2022-002 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2022-003 All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Opensuse Factory - All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise 12.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise 15.0 All All All
Application Vim Vim All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: vim-8.2.4006-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.6.6 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
oss-security - Re: 3 new CVE's in vim MLIST www.openwall.com
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-03-14-4 macOS Monterey 12.3 FULLDISC seclists.org
Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-32) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
patch 8.2.3884: crash when clearing the argument list while using it · vim/vim@6f98371 · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: vim-8.2.4068-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: vim-8.2.4068-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-05-16-3 macOS Big Sur 11.6.6 FULLDISC seclists.org
Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability found in vim CONFIRM huntr.dev
About the security content of Security Update 2022-005 Catalina - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.3 - Apple Support (PH) CONFIRM support.apple.com
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-07-20-4 Security Update 2022-005 Catalina FULLDISC seclists.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: vim-8.2.4006-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 184066 Debian Security Update for vim (CVE-2021-4166)
  • 199293 Ubuntu Security Notification for Vim Vulnerabilities (USN-6026-1)
  • 282219 Fedora Security Update for vim (FEDORA-2022-a3d70b50f0)
  • 282279 Fedora Security Update for vim (FEDORA-2022-48b86d586f)
  • 296063 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 45.119.2 Missing (CPUAPR2022)
  • 353117 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for vim : ALAS-2022-1557
  • 353120 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for vim : ALAS2-2022-1743
  • 354382 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for vim : ALAS2022-2022-014
  • 354497 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for vim : ALAS2022-2022-155
  • 354585 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for vim : ALAS-2022-155
  • 355135 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for vim : ALAS2023-2023-098
  • 376485 Apple MacOS Monterey 12.3 Not Installed (HT213183)
  • 376608 Apple MacOS Big Sur 11.6.6 Not Installed (HT213256)
  • 376739 Apple macOS Security Update 2022-005 Catalina (HT213343)
  • 500730 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503065 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503333 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503407 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503496 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503523 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503571 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503608 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503639 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 503658 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 505951 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 671418 EulerOS Security Update for vim (EulerOS-SA-2022-1363)
  • 671458 EulerOS Security Update for vim (EulerOS-SA-2022-1441)
  • 671465 EulerOS Security Update for vim (EulerOS-SA-2022-1462)
  • 671501 EulerOS Security Update for vim (EulerOS-SA-2022-1499)
  • 671521 EulerOS Security Update for vim (EulerOS-SA-2022-1518)
  • 710607 Gentoo Linux Vim, gVim Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-32)
  • 752246 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for vim (SUSE-SU-2022:2102-1)
  • 753066 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for vim (SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1)
  • 900419 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for vim (7068)
  • 901010 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for vim (7075-1)
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