SUSE SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2025:0722-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 216882

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-2025:0722-1 advisory.

Update to version 9.1.1101:

- CVE-2024-43790: possible out-of-bounds read when performing a search command (bsc#1229685).
- CVE-2024-43802: heap buffer overflow due to incorrect flushing of the typeahead buffer (bsc#1229822).
- CVE-2024-45306: heap buffer overflow when cursor position is invalid (bsc#1230078).
- CVE-2025-22134: heap buffer overflow when switching to other buffers using the :all command with active visual mode (bsc#1235695).
- CVE-2025-24014: NULL pointer dereference may lead to segmentation fault when in silent Ex mode (bsc#1236151).
- CVE-2025-1215: memory corruption when manipulating the --log argument (bsc#1237137).

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: Low

ID: 216882

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0722-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/27/2025

Updated: 2/27/2025

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: 4.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Temporal Score: 1.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1215

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45306

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.4

Threat Score: 0.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gvim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim, 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: 2/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43790, CVE-2024-43802, CVE-2024-45306, CVE-2025-1215, CVE-2025-22134, CVE-2025-24014

IAVA: 2024-A-0526-S, 2024-A-0536-S, 2025-A-0020-S, 2025-A-0055-S, 2025-A-0128

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0722-1

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