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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2438

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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34012 VIM http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html ST 1018035 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA25159 Secunia Advisory: SA25182 Secunia Advisory: SA25255 Secunia Advisory: SA25024 Secunia Advisory: SA25367 Secunia Advisory: SA25432 Secunia Advisory: SA26653 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html MLIST http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 MISC http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 CONFIRM http://www.vim.org/news/news.php http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded BID 23725

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