Google: app-editors/vim, app-editors/vim-core: security update to 18244.1.19

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 450487

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Vim is an improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Heap-use-after-free in memory allocated in the
function `ga_grow_inner` in in the file `src/alloc.c` at line 748, which is freed in the file
`src/ex_docmd.c` in the function `do_cmdline` at line 1010 and then used again in `src/cmdhist.c` at line
759. When using the `:history` command, it's possible that the provided argument overflows the accepted
value. Causing an Integer Overflow and potentially later an use-after-free. This vulnerability has been
patched in version 9.0.2068. (CVE-2023-46246)

Solution

Update the app-editors/vim library and its related packages to version 18244.1.19 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 450487

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: LOW

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-46246

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-46246

Detections

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