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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3236: Security patch for vim (ALAS-2023-1826)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-3236: Security patch for vim (ALAS-2023-1826)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/11/2023
Created
09/28/2023
Added
09/26/2023
Modified
09/26/2023

Description

vim 8.2.2348 is affected by null pointer dereference, allows local attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the ex_buffer_all method.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-vim

References

  • ALAS-2023-1826
  • CVE-2021-3236

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