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Debian LTS: DLA-4097-1: vim Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Discover multiple vulnerabilities in vim affecting Debian 11. Upgrade recommended to enhance system security against these risks.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in vim, an enhanced vi editor

Summary

CVE-2021-3872

Heap-based buffer overflow possible if the buffer name is very long.

CVE-2021-4019

Heap-based buffer overflow possible with a very long help argument.

CVE-2021-4173

Double free in the VimScript9 compiler with a nested :def function.

CVE-2021-4187

Double free in the VimScript9 compiler if a nested function has a
line break in its argument list.

CVE-2022-0261

Buffer overflow in block insert, which goes over the end of the line.

CVE-2022-0351

In a command, a condition with many parentheses can cause a crash,
because there was previously no recursion limit.

CVE-2022-0359

A heap-based buffer overflow could occur with a large tabstop in Ex
mode.

CVE-2022-0361

A buffer overflow was found in the code copying lines in Visual
mode.

CVE-2022-0392

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the code handling
bracketed paste in ex mode.

CVE-2022-0417

The ":retab 0" command may cause a buffer overflow because a limit
was set too high.

CVE-2022-0572

Read the Full Advisory


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Package: vim
Version: 2:8.2.2434-3+deb11u3
CVE ID: CVE-2021-3872 CVE-2021-4019 CVE-2021-4173 CVE-2021-4187
Debian Bug: 1015984 1019590 1027146 1031875 1035955 1053694 1084806

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