Technical Description

A vulnerability was identified in Vim, which may be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an error when processing specially crafted modelines containing "glob()" or "expand()" calls, which may be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary commands by convincing a user to open a malicious file.

Affected Products

Vim versions prior to 6.3.082

Solution

Vim version 6.3.082 :
http://www.vim.org/download.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1216
http://www.guninski.com/where_do_you_want_billg_to_go_today_5.html
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/6.3/README

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Georgi Guninski

ChangeLog

2005-07-26 : Initial release

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