CVE-2022-2980

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in vim’s do_mouse() function of the src/mouse.c file. The issue occurs with a mouse click when it is not initialized. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted input file, triggering the vulnerability that could cause an application to crash.

Mitigation

Untrusted vim scripts with -s [scriptin] are not recommended to run.