{"id":"USN-6154-1","summary":"vim vulnerabilities","details":"It was discovered that Vim was using uninitialized memory when fuzzy\nmatching, which could lead to invalid memory access. An attacker could\npossibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary\ncode. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.10 and Ubuntu\n23.04. (CVE-2023-2426)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when\nprocessing register contents, which could lead to a NULL pointer\ndereference. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial\nof service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-2609)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim was not properly limiting the length of\nsubstitution expression strings, which could lead to excessive memory\nconsumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial\nof service. 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