ports/129137: [vuxml] editors/vim: document netrw issues

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Mon Nov 24 16:00:15 UTC 2008


>Number:         129137
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [vuxml] editors/vim: document netrw issues
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 24 16:00:15 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eygene Ryabinkin
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Code Labs
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE i386

>Description:

A bunch of vulnerabilities were discovered in Vim:
	http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.html
	http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v2.html
	http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v5.html
	http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw-credentials-dis.html

Some of them affect Vim >=7.0 and < 7.2.

>How-To-Repeat:

Look at the above URLs and read Jan Lieskovsky summary:
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/2

>Fix:

The following VuXML entry should be evaluated and added:
--- vuln.xml begins here ---
  <vuln vid="">
    <topic>vim -- multiple vulnerabilities in the netrw module</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>vim</name>
	<name>vim-lite</name>
	<name>vim-gtk2</name>
	<name>vim-gnome</name>
	<range><ge>7.0</ge><lt>7.2</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>Jan Minar reports:</p>
	<blockquote cite="http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v2.html">
	<p>Applying the ``D'' to a file with a crafted file name,
	or inside a directory with a crafted directory name, can
	lead to arbitrary code execution.</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote cite="http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v5.html">
	<p>Lack of sanitization throughout Netrw can lead to arbitrary
	code execution upon opening a directory with a crafted
	name.</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote cite="http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw-credentials-dis.html">
	<p>The Vim Netrw Plugin shares the FTP user name and password
	across all FTP sessions.  Every time Vim makes a new FTP
	connection, it sends the user name and password of the
	previous FTP session to the FTP server.</p>
	</blockquote>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <url>http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.html</url>
      <url>http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v2.html</url>
      <url>http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw.v5.html</url>
      <url>http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-netrw-credentials-dis.html</url>
      <mlist>http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/2</mlist>
      <cvename>CVE-2008-3076</cvename>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2008-10-16</discovery>
      <entry>today</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>
--- vuln.xml ends here ---
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