Medium
Canonical Ubuntu
It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when executing spell suggestion commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0943) It was discovered that Vim was using freed memory when dealing with regular expressions through its old regular expression engine. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly achieve code execution. (CVE-2022-1154) It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing checks on name of lambda functions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue affected only Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-1420) It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly performing bounds checks when processing invalid commands with composing characters in Ex mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-1616) It was discovered that Vim was not properly processing latin1 data when issuing Ex commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-1619) It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management when dealing with invalid regular expression patterns in buffers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-1620) It was discovered that Vim was not properly processing invalid bytes when performing spell check operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-1621) Update Instructions: Run sudo ua fix USN-5613-1
to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: vim-common – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-athena – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-tiny – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-gtk – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-gui-common – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-doc – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 xxd – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-runtime – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-gtk3 – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 vim-nox – 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.8 No subscription required
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-1154, CVE-2022-0943, CVE-2022-1420, CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1621.
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:
2022-09-29: Initial vulnerability report published.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
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bionic stemcells | lt | 1.107 | |
cflinuxfs3 | lt | 0.324.0 | |
cf deployment | lt | 21.11.0 |