SUSE SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2023:3942-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182501

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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-2023:3942-1 advisory.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2023-4733: Fixed use-after-free in function buflist_altfpos (bsc#1215004).
- CVE-2023-4734: Fixed segmentation fault in function f_fullcommand (bsc#1214925).
- CVE-2023-4735: Fixed out of bounds write in ops.c (bsc#1214924).
- CVE-2023-4738: Fixed heap buffer overflow in vim_regsub_both (bsc#1214922).
- CVE-2023-4752: Fixed heap use-after-free in function ins_compl_get_exp (bsc#1215006).
- CVE-2023-4781: Fixed heap buffer overflow in function vim_regsub_both (bsc#1215033).

Other fixes:

- Calling vim on xterm leads to missing first character of the command prompt (bsc#1211461)
- Rendering corruption in gvim with all 9.x versions (bsc#1210738)
- Updated to version 9.0 with patch level 1894

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: High

ID: 182501

File Name: suse_SU-2023-3942-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/4/2023

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: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4781

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4781

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: 10/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4733, CVE-2023-4734, CVE-2023-4735, CVE-2023-4738, CVE-2023-4752, CVE-2023-4781

IAVB: 2023-B-0066-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:3942-1

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