The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6270-1 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 possibly execute     arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2182)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when deleting buffers in diff mode. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2208)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause the corruption of sensitive information, a crash, or arbitrary code execution. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2210)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when using nested :source. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-2231)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks when processing a menu item with the     only modifier. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2257)

    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 possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-2264, CVE-2022-2284,     CVE-2022-2289)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks when going over the end of the typahead.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2285)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks when reading the provided string. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2286)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when adding words with a control character to the     internal spell word list. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-2287)

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 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-6270-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 179306

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Version 1.1 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 1.0 Aug 3, 2023, 2:21 PM New Plugin Feed: 202308031421