The remote Ubuntu 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6302-1 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-2022-2522, CVE-2022-2580, CVE-2022-2817,     CVE-2022-2819, CVE-2022-2862, CVE-2022-2889, CVE-2022-2982, CVE-2022-3134)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks in the diff mode in certain situations.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu     18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2598)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks in certain situations. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-2816)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when skipping compiled code. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-2874)

    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 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-3016,     CVE-2022-3037)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when invalid line number on :for is ignored. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-3099)

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when passing invalid arguments to the assert_fails()     method. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-3153)

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 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-6302-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180004

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

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 21, 2023, 2:10 PM New Plugin Feed: 202308211410