USN-6965-1

It was discovered that vim incorrectly handled parsing of filenames in its search functionality. If a user was tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3973)

It was discovered that vim incorrectly handled memory when opening and searching the contents of certain files. If a user was tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly achieve code execution with user privileges. (CVE-2021-3974)

It was discovered that vim incorrectly handled memory when opening and editing certain files. If a user was tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of service, or possibly achieve code execution with user privileges. (CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019, CVE-2021-4069)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / vim

Package

Name: vim
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/vim@2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17

Affected versions

2:7.*

2:7.4.000-1ubuntu2

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu1

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu2

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm1

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm3

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm4

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm5

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm6

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm7

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm8

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm9

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm10

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm11

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm12

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm13

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm14

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm15

2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm16

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "vim",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-athena",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-athena-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-common",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-common-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-dbg",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-doc",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-gnome",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-gnome-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-gtk",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-gtk-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-gui-common",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-lesstif",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-nox",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-nox-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-runtime",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-tiny",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "vim-tiny-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}