SUSE SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2024:0783-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 191702

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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-2024:0783-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-48231: Fixed Use-After-Free in win_close() (bsc#1217316).
- CVE-2023-48232: Fixed Floating point Exception in adjust_plines_for_skipcol() (bsc#1217320).
- CVE-2023-48233: Fixed overflow with count for :s command (bsc#1217321).
- CVE-2023-48234: Fixed overflow in nv_z_get_count (bsc#1217324).
- CVE-2023-48235: Fixed overflow in ex address parsing (bsc#1217326).
- CVE-2023-48236: Fixed overflow in get_number (bsc#1217329).
- CVE-2023-48237: Fixed overflow in shift_line (bsc#1217330).
- CVE-2023-48706: Fixed heap-use-after-free in ex_substitute (bsc#1217432).
- CVE-2024-22667: Fixed stack-based buffer overflow in did_set_langmap function in map.c (bsc#1219581).
- CVE-2023-4750: Fixed heap use-after-free in function bt_quickfix (bsc#1215005).

Updated to version 9.1 with patch level 0111:
https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v9.0.2103...v9.1.0111

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: 191702

File Name: suse_SU-2024-0783-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/7/2024

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2024-22667

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim-data, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gvim, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:vim, 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: 3/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4750, CVE-2023-48231, CVE-2023-48232, CVE-2023-48233, CVE-2023-48234, CVE-2023-48235, CVE-2023-48236, CVE-2023-48237, CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2024-22667

IAVA: 2023-A-0650-S

IAVB: 2023-B-0066-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:0783-1

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