GLSA-202208-32 : Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 164318

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202208-32 (Vim, gVim: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Vim and gVim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Vim users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-editors/vim-9.0.0060 All gVim users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-editors/gvim-9.0.0060 All vim-core users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-editors/vim-core-9.0.0060

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 164318

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202208-32.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 8/21/2022

Updated: 1/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3973

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-0318

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:vim-core, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:gvim, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:vim

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3770, CVE-2021-3778, CVE-2021-3796, CVE-2021-3872, CVE-2021-3875, CVE-2021-3927, CVE-2021-3928, CVE-2021-3968, CVE-2021-3973, CVE-2021-3974, CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019, CVE-2021-4069, CVE-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4187, CVE-2021-4192, CVE-2021-4193, CVE-2022-0128, CVE-2022-0156, CVE-2022-0158, CVE-2022-0213, CVE-2022-0261, CVE-2022-0318, CVE-2022-0319, CVE-2022-0351, CVE-2022-0359, CVE-2022-0361, CVE-2022-0368, CVE-2022-0392, CVE-2022-0393, CVE-2022-0407, CVE-2022-0408, CVE-2022-0413, CVE-2022-0417, CVE-2022-0443, CVE-2022-0554, CVE-2022-0629, CVE-2022-0685, CVE-2022-0714, CVE-2022-0729, CVE-2022-0943, CVE-2022-1154, CVE-2022-1160, CVE-2022-1381, CVE-2022-1420, CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1674, CVE-2022-1720, CVE-2022-1733, CVE-2022-1735, CVE-2022-1769, CVE-2022-1771, CVE-2022-1785, CVE-2022-1796, CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1886, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1927, CVE-2022-1942, CVE-2022-1968, CVE-2022-2000, CVE-2022-2042, CVE-2022-2124, CVE-2022-2125, CVE-2022-2126, CVE-2022-2129, CVE-2022-2175, CVE-2022-2182, CVE-2022-2183, CVE-2022-2206, CVE-2022-2207, CVE-2022-2208, CVE-2022-2210, CVE-2022-2231, CVE-2022-2257, CVE-2022-2264, CVE-2022-2284, CVE-2022-2285, CVE-2022-2286, CVE-2022-2287, CVE-2022-2288, CVE-2022-2289, CVE-2022-2304, CVE-2022-2343, CVE-2022-2344, CVE-2022-2345

IAVB: 2022-B-0049-S, 2023-B-0016-S

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