1194301 – (CVE-2021-4187) VUL-0: CVE-2021-4187: vim: use-after-free vulnerability

Bug 1194301 (CVE-2021-4187) - VUL-0: CVE-2021-4187: vim: use-after-free vulnerability

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2021-4187: vim: use-after-free vulnerability

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	CVE-2021-4187

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal
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Assignee:	Zoltan Balogh
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/319269/
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Reported:	2022-01-04 15:44 UTC by Carlos López
Modified:	2022-01-04 15:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Carlos López 2022-01-04 15:44:09 UTC

rh#2036129

Vim is vulnerable to use-after-free.

Reference:
https://huntr.dev/bounties/a8bee03a-6e2e-43bf-bee3-4968c5386a2e

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4bf1006cae7e87259ccd5219128c3dba75774441

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036129
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-4187
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-4187
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/4bf1006cae7e87259ccd5219128c3dba75774441
https://huntr.dev/bounties/a8bee03a-6e2e-43bf-bee3-4968c5386a2e

Comment 1 Carlos López 2022-01-04 15:45:55 UTC

I could not reproduce the crash on any codestreams, SLE nor openSUSE, only on newer upstream versions. Closing.