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CVE-2007-2438 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Evaluator Impact

Successful exploitation requires that the "modelines" option is enabled and the user is tricked into opening a malicious file.

Evaluator Solution

The vendor has addressed this issue with the following patches: VIM Development Group VIM 7.0- VIM Development Group patch 7.0.234 ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.0/7.0.234 VIM Development Group patch 7.0.235 ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.0/7.0.235

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-May/001614.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117778983714029&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://osvdb.org/36250 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/25024 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25159 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25182 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25367 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/25432 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/178 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46627 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46645 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/46658 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:101 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_12_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0346.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467202/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23725 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018035 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-463-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vim.org/news/news.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1599 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238259 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34012 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9876 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-2438
NVD Published Date:
05/02/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.