USN-6557-1

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USN-6557-1

Summary: vim vulnerabilities

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. 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)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6557-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1725, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1771, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1886, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1897, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2000, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2042, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-46246, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48231, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48232, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48233, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48234, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48235, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48236, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48237, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-48706