USN-5801-1: Vim vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-0392   CVE-2022-0417  

Several security issues were fixed in Vim.

Details

It was discovered that Vim makes illegal memory calls when pasting
brackets in Ex mode. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim,
access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. This issue
affected only Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 (CVE-2022-0392)

It was discovered that Vim makes illegal memory calls when making
certain retab calls. An attacker could possibly use this to crash Vim,
access or modify memory, or execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-0417)