ports/129300: [vuxml] editors/vim: document CVE-2008-3432

Sun Nov 30 16:40:02 UTC 2008

>Number:         129300
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [vuxml] editors/vim: document CVE-2008-3432
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 30 16:40:01 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Eygene Ryabinkin
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
Code Labs
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64

>Description:

There is CVE-2008-3432 that addresses the heap-based buffer overflow in
vim 6.2 and 6.3.  While these are rather dated, someone might still be
using them.

>How-To-Repeat:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3432
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/4

>Fix:

The following VuXML entry should be evaluated and added:
--- vuln.xml begins here ---
  <vuln vid="">
    <topic>vim -- heap-based overflow while parsing shell metacharacters</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>vim</name>
	<name>vim-lite</name>
	<name>vim-gtk2</name>
	<name>vim-gnome</name>
	<range><ge>6.2.521</ge><lt>6.3.62</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>Description for CVE-2008-3432 says:</p>
	<blockquote cite="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3432">
	<p>Heap-based buffer overflow in the mch_expand_wildcards
	function in os_unix.c in Vim 6.2 and 6.3 allows user-assisted
	attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters
	in filenames, as demonstrated by the netrw.v3 test case.</p>
	</blockquote>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2008-3432</cvename>
      <url>http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/15/4</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2008-07-31</discovery>
      <entry>today</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>
--- vuln.xml ends here ---
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