From: Markus Koschany Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:50:16 +0200 Subject: CVE-2021-4019 Origin: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/bd228fd097b41a798f90944b5d1245eddd484142 --- src/ex_cmds.c | 3 +-- src/testdir/test_help.vim | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/src/ex_cmds.c +++ b/src/ex_cmds.c @@ -6658,8 +6658,7 @@ find_help_tags( || (vim_strchr((char_u *)"%_z@", arg[1]) != NULL && arg[2] != NUL))) { - STRCPY(d, "/\\\\"); - STRCPY(d + 3, arg + 1); + vim_snprintf((char *)d, IOSIZE, "/\\\\%s", arg + 1); /* Check for "/\\_$", should be "/\\_\$" */ if (d[3] == '_' && d[4] == '$') STRCPY(d + 4, "\\$"); --- a/src/testdir/test_help.vim +++ b/src/testdir/test_help.vim @@ -49,3 +49,13 @@ func Test_help_local_additions() call delete('Xruntime', 'rf') let &rtp = rtp_save endfunc + +" CVE-2021-4019 +func Test_help_long_argument() + try + exe 'help \%' .. repeat('0', 1021) + catch + call assert_match("E15:", v:exception) + endtry +endfunc +