Bug 455455 (CVE-2008-3432) - CVE-2008-3432 vim: heap buffer overflow in mch_expand_wildcards()
Summary: CVE-2008-3432 vim: heap buffer overflow in mch_expand_wildcards()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3432
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 453541 453542 453543
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-15 15:58 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 08:36:36 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0617 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: vim security update 2008-11-25 08:57:54 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-15 15:58:35 UTC
Jan Minar's test suite [1] for multiple vim vulnerabilities uncovered an old vim
bug that could trigger a heap buffer overflow in mch_expand_wildcards() in
os_unix.c when file or directory with specially crafted name is opened in vim.

  [1] http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.tar.bz2

Issue is caused by incorrect computation of memory requirements for buffer to
store external command executed by vim.  File / directory name is escaped /
quoted before being passed to an external command, however, possible quoting is
not taken into account when allocating memory.

Issue was introduced in 6.2.429:
  http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/vim/vim/src/os_unix.c?view=log#rev1.104
  ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/6.2.429

and fixed upstream in 6.3.059:
  http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/vim/vim/src/os_unix.c?view=log#rev1.111
  ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/6.3/6.3.059

and later re-written for vim 7.0 to use backslash escaping instead of quoting:
  http://vim.cvs.sourceforge.net/vim/vim7/src/os_unix.c?r1=1.49&r2=1.50

For further details, see:
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/4

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-07-15 15:59:54 UTC
This issue only affects vim packages as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
and 4, which are based on vim 6.3.046.

Comment 3 Red Hat Product Security 2009-01-09 08:36:36 UTC
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0617.html


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