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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2438
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CVE-2007-2438

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34012

VIM
  http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html
  http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html

ST
  1018035

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA25159
  Secunia Advisory: SA25182
  Secunia Advisory: SA25255
  Secunia Advisory: SA25024
  Secunia Advisory: SA25367
  Secunia Advisory: SA25432
  Secunia Advisory: SA26653

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html

MLIST
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178
  http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2
  http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2

MISC
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364

CONFIRM
  http://www.vim.org/news/news.php
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded

BID
  23725


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