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CVE-2008-3432 (GCVE-0-2008-3432)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-10 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:37
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the mch_expand_wildcards function in os_unix.c in Vim 6.2 and 6.3 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames, as demonstrated by the netrw.v3 test case.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2008-10-09 00:00
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