RHEL 8 : vim (RHSA-2022:0894)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158947

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-2022:0894 advisory.

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

Security Fix(es):

* vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in block_insert() in src/ops.c (CVE-2022-0261)

* vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in utf_head_off() in mbyte.c (CVE-2022-0318)

* vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in init_ccline() in ex_getln.c (CVE-2022-0359)

* vim: Illegal memory access when copying lines in visual mode leads to heap buffer overflow (CVE-2022-0361)

* vim: Heap-based buffer overflow in getexmodeline() in ex_getln.c (CVE-2022-0392)

* vim: Use after free in src/ex_cmds.c (CVE-2022-0413)

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-2022:0894.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?734623e1

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0894

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2044607

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2045355

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2046479

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2048519

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2049175

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2050053

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158947

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0894.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2022

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0318

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: 3/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-0261, CVE-2022-0318, CVE-2022-0359, CVE-2022-0361, CVE-2022-0392, CVE-2022-0413

CWE: 122, 416, 787

RHSA: 2022:0894