RHEL 8 : vim (RHSA-2022:0366)

high Nessus Plugin ID 157313

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for vim.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0366 advisory.

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

* vim: heap-based buffer overflow in win_redr_status() in drawscreen.c (CVE-2021-3872)

* vim: illegal memory access in find_start_brace() in cindent.c when C-indenting (CVE-2021-3984)

* vim: heap-based buffer overflow in find_help_tags() in help.c (CVE-2021-4019)

* vim: use-after-free in win_linetabsize() (CVE-2021-4192)

* vim: out-of-bound read in getvcol() (CVE-2021-4193)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL vim package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0366.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?9d5c0275

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0366

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2016056

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028122

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028212

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039685

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039687

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 157313

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0366.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-4192

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-enhanced, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3872, CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019, CVE-2021-4192, CVE-2021-4193

CWE: 119, 122, 125, 416, 787

RHSA: 2022:0366