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

Version 1.4