vim: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2022-4141: check for text locked in CTRL-W gf - CVE-2022-3520: check that the column does not become negative...

CLSA-2022-1670874212 vim: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2022-4141: check for text locked in CTRL-W gf - CVE-2022-3520: check that the column does not become negative...

CVE-2022-3520

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0765. Mitigation Untrusted vim scripts with -s scriptin are not recommended to run...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5775-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5775-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vim uses freed memory in recurisve substitution of specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

vim is vulnerable to denial of service. An attacker can crash the application through the heap-based buffer overflow by providing a maliciously crafted input to the skipwhite function of charset.c...

OESA-2022-2135 vim security update

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing.It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Securit...

CVE-2022-4141 affecting package vim for versions less than 9.0.0982-1

CVE-2022-4141 affecting package vim for versions less than 9.0.0982-1. An upgraded version of the package is available that resolves this issue...

Amazon Linux 2022 : vim (ALAS2022-2022-251)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-251 advisory. - A vulnerability was found in vim and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function qfupdatebuffer of the file quickfix.c of the component autocmd Handler. The manipulation leads to...

Slackware Linux 15.0 / current vim Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2022-342-02)

The version of vim installed on the remote host is prior to 9.0.1034. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2022-342-02 advisory. - Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.0742. CVE-2022-3491 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow in...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2022-342-02)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[slackware-security] vim

New vim packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-9.0.1034-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes various security issues such as a heap-based buffer overflow and use after...

Heap-Based Buffer Overflow

vim is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker is able to CTRL-W gf in the expression used in the RHS of the substitute command causing buffer overflows...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: vim-9.0.1006-1.fc36

VIM VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more...

The vulnerability of the enter_buffer function in the Vim text editor allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the enterbuffer function in the Vim text editor relates to the use of memory after it is freed when using :lopen and :bwipe commands. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service...

The vulnerability of the Vim text editor lies in the fact that it allows reading beyond the permissible buffer data limits. This enables attackers to access confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the Vim text editor is related to reading data beyond the allowable buffer size. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

Fedora: Security Advisory for vim (FEDORA-2022-fc4c513d06)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

The vulnerability of the Vim text editor lies in the fact that it allows reading beyond the allowed buffer data limits. This enables attackers to gain access to confidential data and also causes service interruptions.

The vulnerability of the Vim text editor is related to reading data beyond the allowed buffer limits. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to confidential data and also cause service interruptions...

CVE-2022-4293

A floating point exception flaw was found in Vim's numdivide function of the eval.c file. This issue occurs when dividing the largest negative number by -1. This could allow an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering an application to crash and leading to a deni...

CVE-2022-4292

A heap use-after-free flaw was found in Vim's didsetspelllang function of the spell.c file. This issue occurs because vim uses freed memory after SpellFileMissing autocmd uses bwipe. This could allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering a heap...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: vim-9.0.1006-1.fc37

VIM VIsual editor iMproved is an updated and improved version of the vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features: multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more...