Bug 2039687 (CVE-2021-4193)

Summary:	CVE-2021-4193 vim: out-of-bound read in getvcol()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Cedric Buissart <cbuissar>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdettelb, caswilli, dhalasz, fhrdina, fjansen, gchamoul, jburrell, jnakfour, jwong, karsten, kaycoth, micjohns, sthirugn, tkasparek, vkrizan, vkumar, vmugicag, zdohnal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	vim 8.2.3950	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was found that vim was vulnerable to an out-of-bound read flaw in getvcol(). A specially crafted file could be used to, when opened in vim, disclose some of the process's internal memory.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2022-02-01 22:03:54 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	2039694, 2039700, 2039702, 2039703, 2043462
Bug Blocks:	2039688

Description Cedric Buissart 2022-01-12 08:59:51 UTC

vim is vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read

Upstream fix :
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/94f3192b03ed27474db80b4d3a409e107140738b

Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2022-01-12 09:09:32 UTC

Created vim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2039694]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-02-01 21:01:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:0366 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0366

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-02-01 22:03:51 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-4193