CVE-2007-2953 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.1/7.1.039 http://secunia.com/advisories/25941 http://secunia.com/advisories/26285 http://secunia.com/advisories/26522 http://secunia.com/advisories/26594 http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 http://secunia.com/advisories/26674 http://secunia.com/advisories/26822 http://secunia.com/advisories/32858 http://secunia.com/advisories/33410 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-66/advisory/ http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-001.htm 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-2007:168 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:236 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0580.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0617.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/475076/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502322/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25095 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-505-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0004.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2687 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0033 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0904 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35655 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1595 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11549 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6463