The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5963-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management operations. 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, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-47024, CVE-2023-0049,     CVE-2023-0054, CVE-2023-0288, CVE-2023-0433)

    It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management

    operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

    of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10.
    (CVE-2023-0051)

    It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management

    operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

    of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1170, CVE-2023-1175)

    It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management

    operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

    of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and     Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-1264)

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.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5963-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173039

Version 1.7