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:14.04:LTS / vim

Package

Name: vim
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/vim?arch=source&distro=trusty

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

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17",
            "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-common"
        },
        {
            "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-gtk"
        },
        {
            "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-runtime"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm17",
            "binary_name": "vim-tiny"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-6965-1.json"