CVE-2007-2438 (GCVE-0-2007-2438)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-05-02 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 13:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_TRUSTIX
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html vendor-advisory, x_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-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34012 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html mailing-list, x_refsource_VIM
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html mailing-list, x_refsource_VIM
http://www.vim.org/news/news.php x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238259 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9876 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://osvdb.org/36250 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
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