Vim vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 23.04
• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

Details

It was discovered that Vim was using uninitialized memory when fuzzy
matching, which could lead to invalid memory access. 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 22.10 and Ubuntu
23.04. (CVE-2023-2426)

It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when
processing register contents, which could lead to a NULL pointer
dereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-2609)

It was discovered that Vim was not properly limiting the length of
substitution expression strings, which could lead to excessive memory
consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2023-2610)