Bug 1192904 – VUL-0: CVE-2021-3974: vim: vim is vulnerable to Use After Free

Bug 1192904 - (CVE-2021-3974) VUL-0: CVE-2021-3974: vim: vim is vulnerable to Use After Free

(CVE-2021-3974)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2021-3974: vim: vim is vulnerable to Use After Free

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Major
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Zoltan Balogh
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/315400/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2021-3974:7.0:(AV:L...
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Reported:	2021-11-19 16:46 UTC by Gianluca Gabrielli
Modified:	2022-12-27 08:24 UTC (History)
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Description Gianluca Gabrielli 2021-11-19 16:46:48 UTC

vim is vulnerable to Use After Free

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-3974
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3974
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/64066b9acd9f8cffdf4840f797748f938a13f2d6
https://huntr.dev/bounties/e402cb2c-8ec4-4828-a692-c95f8e0de6d4

Comment 1 Gianluca Gabrielli 2021-11-19 16:47:33 UTC

Affected packages:
 - SUSE:SLE-15:Update/vim  8.0.1568
 - openSUSE:Factory/vim    8.2.3587

Upstream patch [0].

[0] https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/64066b9acd9f8cffdf4840f797748f938a13f2d6

Comment 2 Zoltan Balogh 2022-02-17 20:07:29 UTC

The issue can be reproduced on 8.0 version of codebase from SLE15. But the upstream fix can not be ported straight forward and even after backporting it proved to be not effective.

This issue could be fixed by updating to 8.2

Comment 5 Swamp Workflow Management 2022-06-16 19:23:08 UTC

SUSE-SU-2022:2102-1: An update that fixes 45 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 1070955,1191770,1192167,1192902,1192903,1192904,1193466,1193905,1194093,1194216,1194217,1194388,1194872,1194885,1195004,1195203,1195332,1195354,1196361,1198596,1198748,1199331,1199333,1199334,1199651,1199655,1199693,1199745,1199747,1199936,1200010,1200011,1200012
CVE References: CVE-2017-17087,CVE-2021-3778,CVE-2021-3796,CVE-2021-3872,CVE-2021-3875,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-2021-4192,CVE-2021-4193,CVE-2021-46059,CVE-2022-0128,CVE-2022-0213,CVE-2022-0261,CVE-2022-0318,CVE-2022-0319,CVE-2022-0351,CVE-2022-0359,CVE-2022-0361,CVE-2022-0392,CVE-2022-0407,CVE-2022-0413,CVE-2022-0696,CVE-2022-1381,CVE-2022-1420,CVE-2022-1616,CVE-2022-1619,CVE-2022-1620,CVE-2022-1733,CVE-2022-1735,CVE-2022-1771,CVE-2022-1785,CVE-2022-1796,CVE-2022-1851,CVE-2022-1897,CVE-2022-1898,CVE-2022-1927
JIRA References: 
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 15.4 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
openSUSE Leap 15.3 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP2 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP2-LTSS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP2-BCL (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-BCL (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP4 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP3 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP4 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP2-LTSS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP2-ESPOS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-ESPOS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 (src):    vim-8.2.5038-150000.5.21.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 6 Zoltan Balogh 2022-11-23 08:09:05 UTC

Fixed in 9.0  patch level 814

Comment 8 Swamp Workflow Management 2022-12-27 08:24:21 UTC

SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1: An update that solves 104 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1070955,1173256,1174564,1176549,1182324,1190533,1190570,1191770,1191893,1192167,1192478,1192481,1192902,1192903,1192904,1193294,1193298,1193466,1193905,1194093,1194216,1194217,1194388,1194556,1194872,1194885,1195004,1195066,1195126,1195202,1195203,1195332,1195354,1195356,1196361,1198596,1198748,1199331,1199333,1199334,1199651,1199655,1199693,1199745,1199747,1199936,1200010,1200011,1200012,1200270,1200697,1200698,1200700,1200701,1200732,1200884,1200902,1200903,1200904,1201132,1201133,1201134,1201135,1201136,1201150,1201151,1201152,1201153,1201154,1201155,1201249,1201356,1201359,1201363,1201620,1201863,1202046,1202049,1202050,1202051,1202414,1202420,1202421,1202511,1202512,1202515,1202552,1202599,1202687,1202689,1202862,1202962,1203110,1203152,1203155,1203194,1203272,1203508,1203509,1203796,1203797,1203799,1203820,1203924,1204779
CVE References: CVE-2009-0316,CVE-2016-1248,CVE-2017-17087,CVE-2017-5953,CVE-2017-6349,CVE-2017-6350,CVE-2021-3778,CVE-2021-3796,CVE-2021-3872,CVE-2021-3875,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-2021-4192,CVE-2021-4193,CVE-2021-46059,CVE-2022-0128,CVE-2022-0213,CVE-2022-0261,CVE-2022-0318,CVE-2022-0319,CVE-2022-0351,CVE-2022-0359,CVE-2022-0361,CVE-2022-0392,CVE-2022-0407,CVE-2022-0413,CVE-2022-0696,CVE-2022-1381,CVE-2022-1420,CVE-2022-1616,CVE-2022-1619,CVE-2022-1620,CVE-2022-1720,CVE-2022-1733,CVE-2022-1735,CVE-2022-1771,CVE-2022-1785,CVE-2022-1796,CVE-2022-1851,CVE-2022-1897,CVE-2022-1898,CVE-2022-1927,CVE-2022-1968,CVE-2022-2124,CVE-2022-2125,CVE-2022-2126,CVE-2022-2129,CVE-2022-2175,CVE-2022-2182,CVE-2022-2183,CVE-2022-2206,CVE-2022-2207,CVE-2022-2208,CVE-2022-2210,CVE-2022-2231,CVE-2022-2257,CVE-2022-2264,CVE-2022-2284,CVE-2022-2285,CVE-2022-2286,CVE-2022-2287,CVE-2022-2304,CVE-2022-2343,CVE-2022-2344,CVE-2022-2345,CVE-2022-2522,CVE-2022-2571,CVE-2022-2580,CVE-2022-2581,CVE-2022-2598,CVE-2022-2816,CVE-2022-2817,CVE-2022-2819,CVE-2022-2845,CVE-2022-2849,CVE-2022-2862,CVE-2022-2874,CVE-2022-2889,CVE-2022-2923,CVE-2022-2946,CVE-2022-2980,CVE-2022-2982,CVE-2022-3016,CVE-2022-3037,CVE-2022-3099,CVE-2022-3134,CVE-2022-3153,CVE-2022-3234,CVE-2022-3235,CVE-2022-3278,CVE-2022-3296,CVE-2022-3297,CVE-2022-3324,CVE-2022-3352,CVE-2022-3705
JIRA References: 
Sources used:
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP4 (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5 (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4-LTSS (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL (src):    vim-9.0.0814-17.9.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.