vim-patch:9.0.1833: [security] runtime file fixes (#24969)

Problem:  runtime files may execute code in current dir
Solution: only execute, if not run from current directory

The perl, zig and ruby filetype plugins and the zip and gzip autoload
plugins may try to load malicious executable files from the current
working directory.  This is especially a problem on windows, where the
current directory is implicitly in your $PATH and windows may even run a
file with the extension `.bat` because of $PATHEXT.

So make sure that we are not trying to execute a file from the current
directory. If this would be the case, error out (for the zip and gzip)
plugins or silently do not run those commands (for the ftplugins).

This assumes, that only the current working directory is bad. For all
other directories, it is assumed that those directories were
intentionally set to the $PATH by the user.

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/816fbcc262687b81fc46f82f7bbeb1453addfe0c

Co-authored-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/runtime/autoload/gzip.vim b/runtime/autoload/gzip.vim
index 95dd906794..ac9e37bf85 100644
--- a/runtime/autoload/gzip.vim
+++ b/runtime/autoload/gzip.vim
@@ -10,12 +10,17 @@
 fun s:check(cmd)
   let name = substitute(a:cmd, '\(\S*\).*', '\1', '')
   if !exists("s:have_" . name)
+    " safety check, don't execute anything from the current directory
+    let f = fnamemodify(exepath(name), ":p:h") !=# getcwd()
+    if !f
+      echoerr "Warning: NOT executing " .. name .. " from current directory!"
+    endif
     let e = executable(name)
     if e < 0
       let r = system(name . " --version")
       let e = (r !~ "not found" && r != "")
     endif
-    exe "let s:have_" . name . "=" . e
+    exe "let s:have_" . name . "=" . (e && f)
   endif
   exe "return s:have_" . name
 endfun