Out-of-bounds read in Vim - CVE-2021-4193

 

Out-of-bounds read in Vim - CVE-2021-4193

Published: February 22, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU60789
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 1.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-4193
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the application.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the application.


Affected software

Vim
VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
Isolation Segment
IBM Robotic Process Automation
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Dell Secure Connect Gateway
Red Hat OpenStack
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Anolis OS
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE OpenStack Cloud
macOS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime Extension
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Protection
Dell Data Protection Central
Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
vim (Ubuntu package)
vim-data
vim-data-common
vim-small
vim-debugsource
gvim
gvim-debuginfo
vim
vim-debuginfo
vim-small-debuginfo
vim (Red Hat package)
vim-filesystem
vim-X11
vim-common
vim-enhanced
vim-minimal
app-editors/gvim
app-editors/vim
app-editors/vim-core
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR)
EMC ViPR SRM
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC Unity XT Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE)
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance

How to mitigate CVE-2021-4193

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vim - update to 8.2.3950
Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes - update to 2.0.0
macOS - addressed in versions 10.15.7 19H2026, 11.6.6 20G624, 12.3 21E230
IBM Robotic Process Automation - update to 21.0.2.2
vim (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2:7.4.16893ubuntu1.5+esm5, 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13, 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.14, 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.7
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes - update to 2.3.6
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager - addressed in versions 2.9.41, 2.10.43, 3.0.8
Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) - update to 4.9.0.0
EMC ViPR SRM - update to 4.9.0.0
Dell EMC Unity VSA Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.2.0.0.5.173
Dell EMC Unity XT Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.2.0.0.5.173
Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment (OE) - update to 5.2.0.0.5.173
Dell Secure Connect Gateway - update to 5.14.00.16
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance - addressed in versions 7.0.372, 8.0.000
vim-data - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-data-common - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-small - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
vim-debugsource - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
gvim - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
gvim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1, 9.0.0814-17.9.1
vim-small-debuginfo - addressed in versions 8.0.1568-5.17.1, 8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
vim (Red Hat package) - update to 8.0.1763-16.el8_5.4
vim-filesystem - update to 8.0.1763-16.0.1
vim-X11 - update to 8.0.1763-16.0.1
vim-common - update to 8.0.1763-16.0.1
vim-enhanced - update to 8.0.1763-16.0.1
vim-minimal - update to 8.0.1763-16.0.1
vim-debuginfo - update to 8.2-11
vim-minimal - update to 8.2-11
vim-enhanced - update to 8.2-11
vim-X11 - update to 8.2-11
vim-filesystem - update to 8.2-11
vim-debugsource - update to 8.2-11
vim - update to 8.2-11
vim-common - update to 8.2-11
vim - addressed in versions 8.2.4006-1.fc34, 8.2.4068-1.fc34
app-editors/gvim - update to 9.0.0060
app-editors/vim - update to 9.0.0060
app-editors/vim-core - update to 9.0.0060
vim - update to 9.0.1160-1.1
EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance - update to 13.1.0.2.29
Red Hat OpenStack - update to 16.2

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