🛡️ CVE-2022-0729 on Alpine — vim

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 8.2.4440.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-0729 as tracked by Alpine, for the package vim. The fix is available in version 8.2.4542-r0; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2022-0729 is recorded against 1 package.

  • vim (fixed in 8.2.4542-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 23 February 2022 and last revised on 15 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security.alpinelinux.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-0729 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-02-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
vim — 8.2.4542-r0

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