Bug 2016056 (CVE-2021-3872) - CVE-2021-3872 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in win_redr_status() in drawscreen.c
Summary: CVE-2021-3872 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in win_redr_status() in drawscr...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-3872
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2016057 2016123 2016125 2016200 2016201 2016202
Blocks: 2014663
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-10-20 17:41 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-05-17 09:50 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

Fixed In Version: vim 8.2.3487
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An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in vim's drawscreen.c win_redr_status() function. This flaw allows an attacker to trick a user to open a crafted file with specific arguments in vim, triggering an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, and system availability.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-02 23:40:14 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0366 0 None None None 2022-02-01 21:00:57 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-10-20 17:41:34 UTC 
vim is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow.

Reference:
https://huntr.dev/bounties/c958013b-1c09-4939-92ca-92f50aa169e8

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/826bfe4bbd7594188e3d74d2539d9707b1c6a14b
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-10-20 17:41:51 UTC 
Created vim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2016057]
Comment 2 juneau 2021-10-20 18:39:05 UTC 
marking hosted services affected (low) / delegated solely for presence of affected code.
Comment 5 Todd Cullum 2021-10-20 22:56:33 UTC 
Upstream patch commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/826bfe4bbd7594188e3d74d2539d9707b1c6a14b
Comment 8 Todd Cullum 2021-10-22 01:13:58 UTC 
Flaw summary:

The vulnerable code is in src/drawscreen.c. Specifically:

`p` is a pointer to the `NameBuff` buffer. It's size is represented by the `MAXPATHL` macro.  `win_redr_status()` performs operations such as: `STRCPY(p + len, _("[Help]"));` The problem is that `len` can be large enough to cause this to overflow the `NameBuff` buffer to which `p` points, as there isn't enough room for the data being copied and no check is performed. This can result in out-of-bounds write when Vim buffer ("buffer" as in the Vim feature here, not array) names are long. The upstream patch uses `vim_snprintf()` with a write length constraint of `MAXPATHL - len` rather than `STRCPY()` to prevent an out-of-bounds write.

This flaw is Moderate at most because while it is an out-of-bounds write, the attacker does not necessarily have an arbitrary write and the attack is not inherently bound to the network.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-02-01 21:00:54 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
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