First published: Wed May 02 2007(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Foresight Linux | =1.1 | |
Vim by Vim Development Group | =7.0 |
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CVE-2007-2438 is considered a moderate severity vulnerability due to its potential for user-assisted exploitation.
To fix CVE-2007-2438, you should update Vim to a version that patches the vulnerability, ideally a version higher than 7.0.
CVE-2007-2438 affects Vim version 7.0 and may impact systems using Vim in a user-assisted scenario.
CVE-2007-2438 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands and write files via malicious modelines.
Disabling modelines in Vim can serve as a temporary workaround for CVE-2007-2438 until an update is applied.