SUSE SLES12 : Recommended update for vim (SUSE-SU-2024:4409-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 213375

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4409-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-47814: Fixed use-after-free when closing buffers in Vim (bsc#1231373)
- CVE-2024-43374: Fixed use-after-free in alist_add() (bsc#1229238)

Other fixes:

- Remove patch that introduced a bug caused significantly more CPU usage (bsc#1220618)
- Updated to version 9.1.0836

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected gvim, vim, vim-data and / or vim-data-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 213375

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4409-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/24/2024

Updated: 12/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-43374

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gvim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data-common

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/23/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43374, CVE-2024-47814

IAVA: 2024-A-0505-S, 2024-A-0618

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4409-1

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