Medium: vim

Issue Overview:

vim is vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CVE-2021-3903)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap-based buffer overflow could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3927)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible stack-based buffer overflow could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3928)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap use-after-free vulnerability could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3968)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap-based buffer overflow could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3973)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible use-after-free vulnerability could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. (CVE-2021-3974)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap-based buffer overflow allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. (CVE-2021-3984)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability allows an attacker to input a specially crafted file, leading to a crash or code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is system availability. (CVE-2021-4019)

vim is vulnerable to Use After Free (CVE-2021-4069)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap-based buffer overflow could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2021-4136)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible heap-based buffer overflow could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2021-4166)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible use after free vulnerability could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2021-4173)

A flaw was found in vim. A possible use after free vulnerability could allow an attacker to input a specially crafted file leading to a crash or code execution. (CVE-2021-4187)

It was found that vim was vulnerable to use-after-free flaw in win_linetabsize(). Sourcing a specially crafted file in vim could crash the vim process or possibly lead to other undefined behaviors. (CVE-2021-4192)

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. (CVE-2021-4193)

References to CVE-2021-4192 and CVE-2021-4193 have been added after the original release of this advisory, however those vulnerabilities were fixed by the packages referenced by this advisory’s initial release on 2022-01-18.

Affected Packages:

vim

Issue Correction:
Run yum update vim to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    vim-minimal-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.i686  
    vim-enhanced-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.i686  
    vim-common-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.i686  
    vim-debuginfo-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    vim-data-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
    vim-filesystem-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    vim-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    vim-enhanced-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  
    vim-minimal-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  
    vim-debuginfo-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  
    vim-common-8.2.4006-1.1.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3903, CVE-2021-3927, CVE-2021-3928, CVE-2021-3968, CVE-2021-3973, CVE-2021-3974, CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019, CVE-2021-4069, CVE-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4187, CVE-2021-4192, CVE-2021-4193

Mitre: CVE-2021-3903, CVE-2021-3927, CVE-2021-3928, CVE-2021-3968, CVE-2021-3973, CVE-2021-3974, CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019, CVE-2021-4069, CVE-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4187, CVE-2021-4192, CVE-2021-4193