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Sun Cobalt update for Vim
Secunia Advisory: SA8769
Release Date: 2003-05-13
Last Update: 2003-07-23
Popularity: 6,935 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Cobalt Qube 3
Sun Cobalt RaQ 4
Sun Cobalt RaQ 550
Sun Cobalt RaQ XTR
Sun Linux 5.x

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Description:
Sun has issued updates for vim. It is possible to create malicious text files that can execute arbitrary commands when loaded into vim.

The problem is that vim reads the text file and looks for comments, which can be exploited to call external commands.

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