Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there might be a limited number of scenarios in which this has security relevance.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - vim: Integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site (CVE-2017-6350)

  - VIM version 8.0.1187 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a swap file     ([ORIGINAL_FILENAME].swp) resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways     not intended by the user running the vi binary. (CVE-2017-1000382)

  - Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there might be a limited number of scenarios in which     this has security relevance. (CVE-2017-11109)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - vim: Integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site (CVE-2017-6350)

  - Untrusted search path vulnerability in src/if_python.c in the Python interface in Vim before 7.2.045     allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working     directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function (CVE-2008-5983), as demonstrated by an     erroneous search path for plugin/bike.vim in bicyclerepair. (CVE-2009-0316)

  - vim before patch 8.0.0056 does not properly validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax' and 'keymap'     options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline     is opened. (CVE-2016-1248)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - vim: Integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site (CVE-2017-6350)

  - VIM version 8.0.1187 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a swap file     ([ORIGINAL_FILENAME].swp) resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways     not intended by the user running the vi binary. (CVE-2017-1000382)

  - Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there might be a limited number of scenarios in which     this has security relevance. (CVE-2017-11109)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to the version of the vim packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there     might be a limited number of scenarios in which this     has security relevance.(CVE-2017-11109)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the vim packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there     might be a limited number of scenarios in which this     has security relevance.(CVE-2017-11109)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the vim packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there     might be a limited number of scenarios in which this     has security relevance.(CVE-2017-11109)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4309-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain sources. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04     LTS (CVE-2017-11109)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-5953)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.06 LTS. (CVE-2018-20786)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-20079)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2017-6349, CVE-2017-6350)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the vim packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group     ownership of a .swp file to the editor's primary group     (which may be different from the group ownership of the     original file), which allows local users to obtain     sensitive information by leveraging an applicable group     membership, as demonstrated by /etc/shadow owned by     root:shadow mode 0640, but /etc/.shadow.swp owned by     root:users mode 0640, a different vulnerability than     CVE-2017-1000382.(CVE-2017-17087)

  - Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service     (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other     impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there     might be a limited number of scenarios in which this     has security relevance.(CVE-2017-11109)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several minor issues have been fixed in vim, a highly configurable text editor.

CVE-2017-11109

Vim allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file.

CVE-2017-17087

Vim sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editor's primary group (which may be different from the group ownership of the original file), which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an applicable group membership.

CVE-2019-12735

Vim did not restrict the `:source!` command when executed in a sandbox.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted source (aka
-S) file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:7.3.547-7+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198572	RHEL 6 : vim (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
198547	RHEL 5 : vim (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
198506	RHEL 7 : vim (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196374	RHEL 7 : vim (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196373	RHEL 5 : vim (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196324	RHEL 6 : vim (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
151316	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2021-2090)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
147444	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2021-1453)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
147130	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2021-1525)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
146148	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2021-1238)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
134856	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-4309-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
132214	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2019-2679)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
127480	Debian DLA-1871-1 : vim security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
101791	Debian DLA-1030-1 : vim security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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