The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5995-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain files. If an attacker could     trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, it could cause Vim to crash, or possible execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu     22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0413, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1674, CVE-2022-1733, CVE-2022-1735, CVE-2022-1785,     CVE-2022-1796, CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1942, CVE-2022-1968, CVE-2022-2124, CVE-2022-2125,     CVE-2022-2126, CVE-2022-2129, CVE-2022-2175, CVE-2022-2183, CVE-2022-2206, CVE-2022-2304, CVE-2022-2345,     CVE-2022-2581)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain files. If an attacker could     trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, it could cause Vim to crash, or possible execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-1720, CVE-2022-2571, CVE-2022-2845, CVE-2022-2849, CVE-2022-2923)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain files. If an attacker could     trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, it could cause Vim to crash, or possible execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1927,     CVE-2022-2344)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain files. If an attacker could     trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, it could cause Vim to crash, or possible execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu     22.10. (CVE-2022-2946)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain files. If an attacker could     trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, it could cause Vim to crash, or possible execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10.
    (CVE-2022-2980)

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 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5995-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 173831

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Version 1.4 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.3 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310162138
Version 1.2 Apr 19, 2023, 2:07 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202304191407
Version 1.2 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310161925
Version 1.1 Apr 5, 2023, 3:58 AM Regenerated based on advisory update Plugin Feed: 202304050358
Version 1.0 Apr 4, 2023, 7:56 PM New Plugin Feed: 202304041956