CVE-2007-2438

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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

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