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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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  05/02/2007

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.6 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Provides administrator access
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows disruption of service

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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

References to Check Content

Identifier:
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9876
Check System:
http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9876

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-2438
NVD Published Date:
05/02/2007
NVD Last Modified:
10/16/2018