{"schemaVersion":3,"id":"USN-6452-1","aliases":[],"status":"published","duplicateOf":null,"title":null,"description":"vim vulnerabilities\n\nIt was discovered that Vim could be made to divide by zero. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue\nonly affected Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-3896)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute\narbitrary code. (CVE-2023-4733, CVE-2023-4750)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim contained an arithmetic overflow. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue\nonly affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10.\n(CVE-2023-4734)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or\nexecute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-4735, CVE-2023-5344)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or\nexecute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04 and Ubuntu\n23.10. (CVE-2023-4738)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or\nexecute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu\n16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and\nUbuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-4751)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04\nLTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4752, CVE-2023-5535)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim could be made to write out of bounds. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or\nexecute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu\n22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. (CVE-2023-4781)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim could be made to dereference invalid memory. 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