CVE-2007-2438 (GCVE-0-2007-2438)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-05-02 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:42
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 x_refsource_MISC
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-03… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html mailing-listx_refsource_VIM
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/me… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/36250 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public ?
2007-04-26 00:00
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