CVE-2007-2438 Information

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.

Reference

http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 http://osvdb.org/36250 http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 http://www.vim.org/news/news.php http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238259 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34012 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9876