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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5775-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 5775-1 - It was discovered that Vim uses freed memory in recursive substitution of specially crafted patterns. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. It was discovered that Vim makes illegal memory calls when patterns start with an illegal byte. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim, access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when parsing invalid line numbers. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service.
==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5775-1December 12, 2022vim vulnerabilities==========================================================================A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:- Ubuntu 16.04 ESMSummary:Several security issues were fixed in Vim.Software Description:- vim: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editorDetails:It was discovered that Vim uses freed memory in recurisve substitution ofspecially crafted patterns. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vimand cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2345)It was discovered that Vim makes illegal memory calls when patterns startwith an illegal byte. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim,access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-2581)It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when parsing invalid linenumbers. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denialof service. (CVE-2022-3099)It was discovered that Vim uses freed memory when autocmd changes a mark.An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denial ofservice. (CVE-2022-3256)It was discovered the Vim uses an incorrect array index when window widthis negative. A local attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and causedenial of service. (CVE-2022-3324)It was discoverd that certain buffers could be sent to the wrong window. Anattacker with local access could use this to send messages to the wrongwindow. (CVE-2022-3591)Update instructions:The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the followingpackage versions:Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:vim 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-athena 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-athena-py2 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-gnome 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-gnome-py2 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-gtk 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-gtk-py2 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-gtk3 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-gtk3-py2 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-nox 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-nox-py2 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14vim-tiny 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.References:https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5775-1CVE-2022-2345, CVE-2022-2581, CVE-2022-3099, CVE-2022-3256,CVE-2022-3324, CVE-2022-3591Related news
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