Vim < 9.0.2110

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186426

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Synopsis

A text editor installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

Vim is an open source command line text editor. When parsing relative ex addresses one may unintentionally cause an overflow. Ironically this happens in the existing overflow check, because the line number becomes negative and LONG_MAX - lnum will cause the overflow. Impact is low, user interaction is required and a crash may not even happen in all situations. This issue has been addressed in release version 9.0.2110.

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

Solution

Upgrade to Vim version 9.0.2110 or later

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186426

File Name: vim_9_0_2110.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 11/29/2023

Updated: 12/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48235

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:vim:vim

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Vim, SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48235

IAVA: 2023-A-0650

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