Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Vim vulnerabilities (USN-5433-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5433-1 advisory. It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled parsing of filenames in its search functionality. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted...

Fedora: Security Advisory for vim (FEDORA-2022-d044e7e0b4)

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...

CLSA-2022-1653328424 Fixed CVEs in vim: CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1619

CVE-2022-1619: fix going before the command line start with latin1 encoding - CVE-2022-1620: fix NULL pointer dereference when using invalig regexp - CVE-2022-1621: fix to avoid adding invalid bytes with :spellgood - CVE-2022-1629: fix reading past end of line if ended with trailing backslash -...

USN-5433-1: Vim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled parsing of filenames in its search functionality. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2021-3973 It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memo...

Out-of-bounds read in function gchar_cursor

Description Out-of-bounds read in function gcharcursor at misc1.c:532 vim version git log commit 68e64d2c1735f2a39afa8a0475ae29bedb116684 HEAD - master, tag: v8.2.5006, origin/master, origin/HEAD POC ./vim -u NONE -i NONE -n -m -X -Z -e -s -S /mnt/share/max/fuzz/poc/vim/poch11s.dat -c :qa!...

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function utf_head_off

Description Heap-based Buffer Overflow in function utfheadoff at mbyte.c:3872 vim Version git log commit 68e64d2c1735f2a39afa8a0475ae29bedb116684 HEAD - master, tag: v8.2.5006, origin/master, origin/HEAD POC ./vim -u NONE -i NONE -n -m -X -Z -e -s -S poch6s.dat -c :qa!...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: vim-8.2.4975-1.fc34

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...

Buffer Over-read in function utf_ptr2char

Description Buffer Over-read in function utfptr2char at mbyte.c:1794 vim version git log commit 31d9948e3a2529c2f619d56bdb48291dc261233d HEAD - master, tag: v8.2.5026, origin/master, origin/HEAD POC ./vim -u NONE -i NONE -n -m -X -Z -e -s -S /mnt/share/max/fuzz/poc/vim/poch10ns.dat -c :qa!...

Fedora: Security Advisory for vim (FEDORA-2022-74b9e404c1)

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: vim-8.2.4975-1.fc35

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...

Fedora: Security Advisory for vim (FEDORA-2022-d6d1ac4ca7)

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...

CVE-2018-11319

Syntastic aka vim-syntastic through 3.9.0 does not properly handle searches for configuration files it searches the current directory up to potentially the root. This improper handling might be exploited for arbitrary code execution via a malicious gcc plugin, if an attacker has write access to a...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

vim is vulnerable to denial of service. An attacker can crash the application through the heap-based buffer overflow in the cmdlineerasechars function of the library...

Heap-Based Buffer Overflow

vim is vulnerable to heap buffer overflow. The vulnerability exists in vimstrncpy findword which allows an attacker to bypass protection mechanism and crash the system...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

vim is vulnerable to denial of service. The vulnerability exists due to a NULL Pointer Dereference in function vimregexecstring at regexp.c allowing an attacker to crash the system via a maliciously crafted input...

CLSA-2022-1653006752 Fixed CVEs in vim: CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1619

CVE-2022-1619: fix going before the command line start with latin1 encoding - CVE-2022-1620: fix NULL pointer dereference when using invalig regexp - CVE-2022-1621: fix to avoid adding invalid bytes with :spellgood - CVE-2022-1629: fix reading past end of line if ended with trailing backslash -...

Fixed CVEs in vim: CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1619

CVE-2022-1619: fix going before the command line start with latin1 encoding - CVE-2022-1620: fix NULL pointer dereference when using invalig regexp - CVE-2022-1621: fix to avoid adding invalid bytes with :spellgood - CVE-2022-1629: fix reading past end of line if ended with trailing backslash -...

Fedora: Security Advisory for vim (FEDORA-2022-d20b51de9c)

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 cmdline_erase_chars() function in the Vim text editor allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the cmdlineerasechars function in the Vim text editor is related to the issue of writing operations beyond the buffer’s boundaries into memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a service failure using a specially created...

The vulnerability in the implementation of the vim_regexec_string() function in the Vim text editor allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the vimregexecstring function in the Vim text editor is related to pointer arithmetic errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a system failure...