The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6452-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to divide by zero. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3896)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-4733, CVE-2023-4750)

    It was discovered that Vim contained an arithmetic overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to     cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10.
    (CVE-2023-4734)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-4735, CVE-2023-5344)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu     23.10. (CVE-2023-4738)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu     16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-4751)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. 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, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4752, CVE-2023-5535)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. 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, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4781)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to dereference invalid memory. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-5441)

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.

Detections

Analytics

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-6452-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183889

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Version 1.5 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 1.4 Nov 2, 2023, 2:21 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202311021421
Version 1.3 Nov 2, 2023, 4:31 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202311020431
Version 1.2 Oct 27, 2023, 12:17 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202310271217
Version 1.1 Oct 26, 2023, 4:13 AM Plugin metadata Detection Plugin Feed: 202310260413
Version 1.0 Oct 26, 2023, 1:04 AM New Plugin Feed: 202310260104