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CVE-2007-2438 at MITRE

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.

NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Novell/SUSE information

Novell Bugzilla entry: 270496, 304172

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE 10.2
  • gvim >= 7.0-36
  • vim >= 7.0-36
  • vim-enhanced >= 7.0-36

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