Description
The sandbox for vim allows dangerous functions such as (1) writefile, (2) feedkeys, and (3) system, which might allow user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands and write files via modelines.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 ↗
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html ↗
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html ↗
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34012 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 ↗
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 ↗
- http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html ↗
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html ↗
- http://www.vim.org/news/news.php ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238259 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9876 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/36250 ↗