CVE-2007-2953 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2953
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Description: Format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function in src/ex_cmds.c in Vim 6.4 and earlier, and 7.x up to 7.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file, related to the helptags command.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35655 VIM http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-505-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA26285 Secunia Advisory: SA26594 Secunia Advisory: SA26653 Secunia Advisory: SA26674 Secunia Advisory: SA26822 Secunia Advisory: SA25941 Secunia Advisory: SA26522 Secunia Advisory: SA33410 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0580.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0617.html MISC http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-66/advisory/ MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:168 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:236 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0004.html http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-001.htm BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502322/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/475076/100/100/threaded BID 25095

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