Package: vim Version: 1:6.3-054+1 Severity: grave Tags: patch security As described in the Ubuntu advisory below, vim's tcltags and vimspell scripts use temp files insecurely. I've attached a patch I extraced from the Ubuntu diff.
----- Forwarded message from Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:56:58 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: [USN-61-1] vim vulnerabilities User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i =========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-61-1 January 18, 2005 vim vulnerabilities CAN-2005-0069 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) The following packages are affected: kvim vim vim-gnome vim-gtk vim-lesstif vim-perl vim-python vim-tcl The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:6.3-025+1ubuntu2.2. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Javier Fern�ndez-Sanguino Pe�a noticed that the auxillary scripts "tcltags" and "vimspell.sh" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script (either by calling it directly or by execution through vim). 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diff -urN vim63/runtime/tools/tcltags vim63.new/runtime/tools/tcltags
--- vim63/runtime/tools/tcltags 1999-08-01 14:01:46.000000000 +0200
+++ vim63.new/runtime/tools/tcltags 2005-01-18 16:25:24.452393560 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
program_version="0.3"
program_author="Darren Hiebert"
author_email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
-tmp_tagfile=/tmp/${program_name}.$$
+tmp_tagfile=`mktemp -t tcltagXXXXXX` || exit 1
+trap "rm -rf $tmp_tagfile" 0 1 2 3 9 11 13 15
usage="\
Usage: $program_name [-au] [-{f|o} tagfile] [--format=n] file(s)
diff -urN vim63/runtime/tools/vimspell.sh vim63.new/runtime/tools/vimspell.sh
--- vim63/runtime/tools/vimspell.sh 1999-08-01 14:01:46.000000000 +0200
+++ vim63.new/runtime/tools/vimspell.sh 2005-01-18 16:20:40.774519152 +0100
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
# March 1999
INFILE=$1
-OUTFILE=/tmp/vimspell.$$
-# if you have "tempfile", use the following line
-#OUTFILE=`tempfile`
+OUTFILE=`mktemp -t vimspellXXXXXX` || exit 1
#
# local spellings
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