RHEL 4 : vim (RHSA-2005:745)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 19489

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for vim.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:745 advisory.

VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is a version of the vi editor.

A bug was found in the way VIM processes modelines. If a user with modelines enabled opens a text file with a carefully crafted modeline, arbitrary commands may be executed as the user running VIM. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CAN-2005-2368 to this issue.

Users of VIM are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL vim package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:745.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 19489

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-745.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/23/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-2368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-enhanced, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-minimal, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-x11, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vim-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/26/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2368

RHSA: 2005:745

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