Incorrect Comparison in Vim - CVE-2022-4293

 

Incorrect Comparison in Vim - CVE-2022-4293

Published: December 13, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU70135
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4293
CWE-ID: CWE-697
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the application.

The vulnerability exists due to a floating point exception within the num_divide() function in eval.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted file and crash the application.


Affected software

Vim
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Isolation Segment
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Redis for Pivotal Platform
Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Protection
Dell Data Protection Central
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
openSUSE Leap Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime Extension
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
vim-gnome (Ubuntu package)
xxd (Ubuntu package)
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package)
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-nox (Ubuntu package)
vim-athena (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package)
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package)
vim-filesystem
vim-common
vim-debugsource
vim-X11
vim-minimal
vim-enhanced
vim-debuginfo
vim
vim-gvim
vim-data
gvim-debuginfo
gvim
vim-data-common
vim-small-debuginfo
vim-small
app-editors/vim-core
app-editors/vim
app-editors/gvim
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
EMC ViPR SRM
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
RecoverPoint for VMs
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance

How to mitigate CVE-2022-4293

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 9.0.0804
vim-gnome (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
xxd (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
vim-tiny (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
vim (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
vim-nox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
vim-athena (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
vim-gtk3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
vim-gtk (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.18, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.12
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - update to 3.0.17
EMC ViPR SRM - update to 4.9.0.0
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) - update to 4.9.0.0
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.0.1
RecoverPoint for VMs - update to 6.0.SP1.P1
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance - update to 7.0.411
vim-filesystem - update to 9.0-4
vim-common - update to 9.0-4
vim-debugsource - update to 9.0-4
vim-X11 - update to 9.0-4
vim-minimal - update to 9.0-4
vim-enhanced - update to 9.0-4
vim-debuginfo - update to 9.0-4
vim - update to 9.0-4
vim-gvim - update to 9.0.1034
vim - update to 9.0.1034
vim - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
vim-data - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
gvim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
gvim - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
vim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
vim-data-common - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
vim-small-debuginfo - update to 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
vim-small - update to 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1
vim-debugsource - addressed in versions 9.0.1040-150000.5.31.1, 9.0.1234-17.12.1
app-editors/vim-core - update to 9.0.1157
app-editors/vim - update to 9.0.1157
app-editors/gvim - update to 9.0.1157

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