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USN-5775-1: Vim vulnerabilities


Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

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 cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-2345) 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. (CVE-2022-2581) It was discovered that Vim could be made to crash when parsing invalid line numbers. An attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of 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 of service. (CVE-2022-3256) It was discovered the Vim uses an incorrect array index when window width is negative. A local attacker could possbly use this to crash Vim and cause denial of service. (CVE-2022-3324) It was discoverd that certain buffers could be sent to the wrong window. An attacker with local access could use this to send messages to the wrong window. (CVE-2022-3591) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5775-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: vim-common - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-nox-py2 - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gnome - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-athena-py2 - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-athena - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gtk - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gui-common - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gtk3-py2 - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-doc - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gtk-py2 - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-tiny - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gnome-py2 - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-gtk3 - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-nox - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 vim-runtime - 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm14 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-2345, CVE-2022-2581, CVE-2022-3099, CVE-2022-3256, CVE-2022-3324, CVE-2022-3591

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • All versions prior to 2.0.0
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.8.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.9.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.10.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.11.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.12.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.13.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.52
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.8.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.9.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.10.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.11.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.12.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376
    • 2.13.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.376

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • 2.0.0
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.8.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.9.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.10.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.11.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.12.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.13.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.52
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.8.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.9.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.10.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.11.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.12.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater
    • 2.13.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.376 or greater

References

History

2023-05-11: Initial vulnerability report published.