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High ALAS2-2023-2266 9 CVEs

Important: vim security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 27, 2023 · Updated Oct 5, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-4781: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1873. CVE-2023-4752: Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1858. CVE-2023-4751: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1331. CVE-2023-4750: Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1857. CVE-2023-4738: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1848. CVE-2023-4735: Out-of-bounds Write in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1847. CVE-2023-4734: Integer Overflow or Wraparound in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1846. CVE-2023-4733: Use After Free in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1840. CVE-2021-3236: vim 8.2.2348 is affected by null pointer dereference, allows local attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the ex_buffer_all method.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-common 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-data 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-debuginfo 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-enhanced 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-filesystem 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-minimal 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 vim-X11 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 xxd 2:9.0.1882-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 9

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3236.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4733.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4734.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4735.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4738.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4750.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4751.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4752.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-4781.html