Bug#435401: sandbox for vim allows attackers to execute shell commands and wr ite files

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Aug 17 21:06:21 UTC 2007


James Vega wrote:
> > FrSirt states that this has been fixed as of version 7.0.235[0]. The current
> > version in unstable is 7.1
> > 
> > The version in stable is currently vulnerable. 
> > 
> > The version in unstable does not appear to be vulnerable, as none of the
> > exploits I tried against it were successful.
> > 
> > [0]http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1599
> 
> Thanks for taking a look at this.  I'll work on getting a package ready
> for the stable release and contacting the security team.

What's the status? If you prepare an update for us, please include the fix
for ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.1/7.1.039 (CVE-2007-2953).

Cheers,
        Moritz




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