Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1579
Advisory Release Date: 2022-04-04 23:48 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-04-06 21:32 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to a crash when recording and using Select mode and leads to an out-of-bounds read. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0393)
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to stack corruption when looking for spell suggestions and leads to a stack buffer overflow. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0408)
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to using freed memory when the substitute uses a recursive function call, resulting in a use-after-free vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0413)
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to illegal memory access and leads to a heap buffer overflow. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0417)
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to using freed memory which results in a use-after-free vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0443)
A flaw was found in vim that causes an out-of-range pointer offset vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0554)
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in vim's ex_retab() function of indent.c file. This flaw occurs when repeatedly using :retab. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a crafted file triggering a heap-overflow. (CVE-2022-0572)
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in vim's ga_concat_shorten_esc() function of src/testing.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a crafted file, triggering a stack-overflow. This issue can lead to an application crash, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0629)
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to a crash when using a special multi-byte character and leads to an out-of-range vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0685)
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vim's find_ucmd() function of usercmd.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a crafted file, triggering a NULL pointer dereference. This issue leads to an application crash, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0696)
A heap-buffer-overflow flaw was found in vim's win_lbr_chartabsize() function of charset.c file. The issue occurs due to an incorrect 'vartabstop' value. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file, triggering a heap-overflow, and can cause an application to crash, eventually leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0714)
A flaw was found in vim. The vulnerability occurs due to crashes within specific regexp patterns and strings and leads to an out-of-range vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2022-0729)
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in vim's suggest_try_change() function of the spellsuggest.c file. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user into opening a crafted file, triggering a heap-overflow and causing an application to crash, which leads to a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0943)
Affected Packages:
vim
Issue Correction:
Run yum update vim to update your system.
i686:
vim-debuginfo-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.i686
vim-enhanced-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.i686
vim-minimal-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.i686
vim-common-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.i686
noarch:
vim-data-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.noarch
vim-filesystem-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.noarch
src:
vim-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.src
x86_64:
vim-common-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.x86_64
vim-enhanced-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.x86_64
vim-minimal-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.x86_64
vim-debuginfo-8.2.4621-1.1.amzn1.x86_64