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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5723-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 167513

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5723-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when searching specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-1674)

 It was discovered that there existed a NULL pointer dereference in Vim. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-1725)

 It was discovered that there existed a buffer over-read in Vim when searching specially crafted patterns.
 An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2124)

 It was discovered that there existed a heap buffer overflow in Vim when auto-indenting lisp. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2125)

 It was discovered that there existed an out of bounds read in Vim when performing spelling suggestions. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2126)

 It was discovered that Vim accessed invalid memory when executing specially crafted command line expressions. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2175)

 It was discovered that there existed an out-of-bounds read in Vim when auto-indenting lisp. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands.
 (CVE-2022-2183)

 It was discovered that Vim accessed invalid memory when terminal size changed. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2206)

 It was discovered that there existed a stack buffer overflow in Vim's spelldump. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2304)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5723-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 167513

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5723-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/15/2022

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

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-2022-2304

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-nox, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gtk-py2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-tiny, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-athena, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gtk3-py2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-athena-py2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gnome-py2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gui-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-gnome, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-nox-py2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vim-common

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1674, CVE-2022-1725, CVE-2022-2124, CVE-2022-2125, CVE-2022-2126, CVE-2022-2175, CVE-2022-2183, CVE-2022-2206, CVE-2022-2304

IAVB: 2022-B-0049-S, 2023-B-0016-S

USN: 5723-1