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>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Vim Modelines Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Vim Modelines Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1692
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-05-08


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A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Vim. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1599

Affected Products

Fedora Core 6

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

ee8f8842dbf32465e0c88826fc61c2fa592987f9 SRPMS/vim-7.0.235-1.fc6.src.rpm
ee8f8842dbf32465e0c88826fc61c2fa592987f9 noarch/vim-7.0.235-1.fc6.src.rpm
844c7446d9830cc7dcff17df894663806b03e8c2 ppc/vim-enhanced-7.0.235-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
11a0b358ba63eb79800ad2070721edfdcd840423 ppc/vim-X11-7.0.235-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
4a221fa84540f2e62e186343462b69e608fd1f35 ppc/vim-common-7.0.235-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
274b5bbaa99f646e81bb59ff15c985f3f40c79e1 ppc/vim-minimal-7.0.235-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
3d6b144ed7a827aab34d04098b5da13a75161a8a ppc/debug/vim-debuginfo-7.0.235-1.fc6.ppc.rpm
1e7dea697bccc50200b1acc73a8dcee7a807ced1 x86_64/debug/vim-debuginfo-7.0.235-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
8067840792fffbeb2540b5ae26c63117faff31cb x86_64/vim-minimal-7.0.235-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
ad364dc860caf70aa930eccba61e691ff186e8ed x86_64/vim-enhanced-7.0.235-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
ff0e6fa4ce37439b3b20f6de53ade3199ece3f05 x86_64/vim-common-7.0.235-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
014fe19cdf7cc2fda384e0132801945bc0ef7e2d x86_64/vim-X11-7.0.235-1.fc6.x86_64.rpm
e267c82124c78dad73b2b68d336300249a36084d i386/vim-minimal-7.0.235-1.fc6.i386.rpm
64cec05bfa9dcc0f3ce1f31e7cb997207f6a35be i386/vim-common-7.0.235-1.fc6.i386.rpm
ea9b3e07b6c8c907bb0a488f54f8329001468065 i386/vim-enhanced-7.0.235-1.fc6.i386.rpm
d9b2d1c644a4280197f93d3d430d6eb0b6552156 i386/vim-X11-7.0.235-1.fc6.i386.rpm
51c29643ffd7c1fd24b3425e14edc35f9b46a178 i386/debug/vim-debuginfo-7.0.235-1.fc6.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1692
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-May/msg00011.html

ChangeLog

2007-05-08 : Initial release

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