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USN-6557-1

USN-6557-1: Vim vulnerabilities

Publication date

14 December 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Vim.

Releases

23.10 23.04 22.04 LTS 20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

Details

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....

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)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
23.10 mantic	vim – 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
	vim-athena – 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
	vim-gtk3 – 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
	vim-nox – 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
	vim-tiny – 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
	xxd – 2:9.0.1672-1ubuntu2.2
23.04 lunar	vim – 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
	vim-athena – 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
	vim-gtk3 – 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
	vim-nox – 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
	vim-tiny – 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
	xxd – 2:9.0.1000-4ubuntu3.3
22.04 jammy	vim – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	vim-athena – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	vim-gtk – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	vim-gtk3 – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	vim-nox – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	vim-tiny – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
	xxd – 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.15
20.04 focal	vim – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	vim-athena – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	vim-gtk – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	vim-gtk3 – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	vim-nox – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	vim-tiny – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
	xxd – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.21
18.04 bionic	vim – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	vim-athena – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	vim-gtk – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	vim-gtk3 – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	vim-nox – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	vim-tiny – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
	xxd – 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm7
16.04 xenial	vim – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
	vim-athena – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
	vim-gtk – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
	vim-gtk3 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
	vim-nox – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
	vim-tiny – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm22
14.04 trusty	vim – 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15
	vim-athena – 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15
	vim-gtk – 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15
	vim-nox – 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15
	vim-tiny – 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15

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