Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-018 Critical: Vim Command Execution Threat

VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the

vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is

still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features:

multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more.

Ciaran McCreesh discovered a modeline vulnerability in VIM. It is possible

that a malicious user could create a file containing a specially crafted

modeline which could cause arbitrary command execution when viewed by a

victim. Please note that this issue only affects users who have modelines

and filetype plugins enabled, which is not the default. The Common

Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CAN-2004-1138

to this issue.

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered insecure usage of temporary files

in two scripts shipped with vim. It is possible that a malicious user could

guess the names of the temporary files and start a symlink attack.

- patchlevel 54

- fix usage of temporary files (#144698)

* Tue Dec 14 2004 Karsten Hopp 6.3.046-0.fc3.1

- patchlevel 46 (#142446) CAN-2004-1138

5b9a4b0da35d3d57a88b6c7c95b5c1fd SRPMS/vim-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.src.rpm

829f6d419aa8193a29b0b61b8331e140 x86_64/vim-common-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm

12741125b95691dd1219d97a843aca6d x86_64/vim-minimal-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm

174963d7208fb3e63d97bc3d246ab557 x86_64/vim-enhanced-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm

1de0fc1a0ec7f333ead8474e69fd7dff x86_64/vim-X11-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm

2acf1b3f9c95ee0d13c7dfacea0598f7 x86_64/debug/vim-debuginfo-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.x86_64.rpm

11fc97eaf90d392e097954288701ea78 i386/vim-common-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.i386.rpm

2c7911e0c78ae79fbd9390d978f5f245 i386/vim-minimal-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.i386.rpm

beef9829f37c8e916a7a605a030aa066 i386/vim-enhanced-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.i386.rpm

d578bd4501cb6b77ff5e821704dd19ce i386/vim-X11-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.i386.rpm

0a197bc77cc9996a0a8d8665819d8188 i386/debug/vim-debuginfo-6.3.054-0.fc3.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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