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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM USN-5836-1 Critical: Vim Memory Management Issues

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5837-1 addresses severe vulnerabilities in Gnome Shell affecting ESM versions with possible service interruption risks.
Several security issues were fixed in Vim.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Vim.

Software Description:

- vim: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

Details:

It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management

operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial

of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-47024, CVE-2023-0049,

CVE-2023-0054, CVE-2023-0288, CVE-2023-0433)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical DoS Ubuntu memory management vim

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
   vim                             2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm15

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
   vim                             2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5836-1

  CVE-2022-47024, CVE-2023-0049, CVE-2023-0054, CVE-2023-0288,

  CVE-2023-0433

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January 31, 2023

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security advisory security issue critical DoS Ubuntu memory management vim

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