SUSE SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2023:0209-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 170901

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0209-1 advisory.

- Updated to version 9.0.1234:
- CVE-2023-0433: Fixed an out of bounds memory access that could cause a crash (bsc#1207396).
- CVE-2023-0288: Fixed an out of bounds memory access that could cause a crash (bsc#1207162).
- CVE-2023-0054: Fixed an out of bounds memory write that could cause a crash or memory corruption (bsc#1206868).
- CVE-2023-0051: Fixed an out of bounds memory access that could cause a crash (bsc#1206867).
- CVE-2023-0049: Fixed an out of bounds memory access that could cause a crash (bsc#1206866).
- CVE-2022-3491: Fixed an out of bounds memory access that could cause a crash (bsc#1206028).
- CVE-2022-3520: Fixed an out of bounds memory access that could cause a crash (bsc#1206071).
- CVE-2022-3591: Fixed a use-after-free issue that could cause memory corruption or undefined behavior (bsc#1206072).
- CVE-2022-4292: Fixed a use-after-free issue that could cause memory corruption or undefined behavior (bsc#1206075).
- CVE-2022-4293: Fixed a floating point exception that could cause a crash (bsc#1206077).
- CVE-2022-4141: Fixed an out of bounds memory write that could cause a crash or memory corruption (bsc#1205797).
- CVE-2022-3705: Fixed an use-after-free issue that could cause a crash or memory corruption (bsc#1204779).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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

Update the affected gvim, vim, vim-data and / or vim-data-common packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 170901

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0209-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/31/2023

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.35

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3520

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gvim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3491, CVE-2022-3520, CVE-2022-3591, CVE-2022-3705, CVE-2022-4141, CVE-2022-4292, CVE-2022-4293, CVE-2023-0049, CVE-2023-0051, CVE-2023-0054, CVE-2023-0288, CVE-2023-0433

IAVB: 2022-B-0049-S, 2022-B-0058-S, 2023-B-0016-S, 2023-B-0018-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0209-1

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