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Fedora Core 6 2007:492 Moderate: Vim Modeline Command Execution Threat

fedora
Calendar Grey May 7, 2007
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolving vulnerabilities in vim editor allowing harmful files to run unauthorized commands through modeline in Fedora Core 6.
This update fixes several issues where opening a malicious file with vim can run an arbitrary command via modeline

Summary

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.

This update fixes several issues where opening a malicious

file with vim can run an arbitrary command via modeline

- rebuild for FC-6

* Mon Apr 30 2007 Karsten Hopp 7.0.235-1

- update to patchlevel 235, fixes modeline issues

* Tue Apr 17 2007 Karsten Hopp 7.0.224-3

- fix typo in require line (vim-X11 - 2:7.0.224-2.fc7.i386 requires 4)

* Mon Apr 16 2007 Karsten Hopp 7.0.224-2

- use more macros

- drop BR perl

- move license to main doc directory

- set vendor to 'fedora' (desktop-file)

- don't own man directories

- preserve timestamps of non-generated files

- run update-desktop-database

* Thu Apr 5 2007 Karsten Hopp 7.0.224-1

- vim-X11 provides gvim

* Fri Mar 30 2007 Karsten Hopp 7.0.224-1

- patchlevel 224

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

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: vim
Version: 7.0.235
Release: 1.fc6
Summary: The VIM editor

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