{"schemaVersion":3,"id":"USN-6270-1","aliases":[],"status":"published","duplicateOf":null,"title":null,"description":"vim vulnerabilities\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain\nfiles. If an attacker could trick a user into opening a specially crafted\nfile, it could cause Vim to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2182)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when deleting buffers\nin diff mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial\nof service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2022-2208)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory access. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause the corruption of sensitive\ninformation, a crash, or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected\nUbuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2022-2210)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when using nested\n:source. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of\nservice. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2231)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks when\nprocessing a menu item with the only modifier. An attacker could possibly\nuse this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2257)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when opening certain\nfiles. If an attacker could trick a user into opening a specially crafted\nfile, it could cause Vim to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.\n(CVE-2022-2264, CVE-2022-2284, CVE-2022-2289)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks when\ngoing over the end of the typahead. An attacker could possibly use this\nissue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2285)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim did not properly perform bounds checks when\nreading the provided string. An attacker could possibly use this issue to\ncause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2286)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled memory when adding words\nwith a control character to the internal spell word list. An attacker could\npossibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. 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