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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020:4453-01 Moderate Risk in vim Exec

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An alert from Red Hat concerning a necessary vim update owing to a moderate threat level of potential arbitrary command execution on the OS. Discover further details.
An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.
Security Fix(es):
* vim: users can execute arbitrary OS commands via scripting interfaces in the rvim restricted mode (CVE-2019-20807)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update software patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux arbitrary command execution vim

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-20807 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
aarch64: vim-X11-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-X11-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-common-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-common-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-debugsource-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-enhanced-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-enhanced-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm vim-minimal-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: vim-filesystem-8.0.1763-15.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: vim-X11-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-X11-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-common-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-common-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-debugsource-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-enhanced-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-enhanced-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm vim-minimal-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: vim-X11-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-X11-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-common-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-common-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-debugsource-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-enhanced-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm vim-enhanced-debuginfo-8.0.1763-15.el8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4453-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4453
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update software patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux arbitrary command execution vim

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1745476 - manpage of vim is garbled in Japanese locale

1842658 - CVE-2019-20807 vim: users can execute arbitrary OS commands via scripting interfaces in the rvim restricted mode

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