Incorrect Privilege Assignment Affecting vim-enhanced package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-VIMENHANCED-1368489
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 4 Nov 2017
Introduced: 4 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-17087 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7
vim-enhanced
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-enhanced
package and not the vim-enhanced
package as distributed by RHEL
.
See How to fix?
for RHEL:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editor's primary group (which may be different from the group ownership of the original file), which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an applicable group membership, as demonstrated by /etc/shadow owned by root:shadow mode 0640, but /etc/.shadow.swp owned by root:users mode 0640, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-1000382.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17087
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/27/2
- http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=166
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5a73e0ca54c77e067c3b12ea6f35e3e8681e8cf8
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/sRT9BtjLWMk/BRtSXNU4BwAJ
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4582-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00003.html