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-6557-1 advisory.

    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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1725)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to recurse infinitely. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04     LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1771)

    It was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds with a put command. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1886)

    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     18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-2000)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory in the spell command. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu     22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2042)

    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-2023-46246, CVE-2023-48231)

    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 and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-48232)

    It was discovered that Vim contained multiple arithmetic overflows. An attacker could possibly use these     issues to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236,     CVE-2023-48237)

    It was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory in the substitute command. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-48706)

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-6557-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186991

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 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 1.1 Aug 9, 2024, 10:04 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202408091004
Version 1.0 Dec 15, 2023, 4:55 PM New Plugin Feed: 202312151655