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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 6.10, 7.04: USN-505-1 Critical: Vim Exec Threat

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Severe vulnerability in vim permits remote adversaries to run arbitrary code with user-level access, affecting various versions of Ubuntu LTS.
Ulf Harnhammar discovered that vim does not properly sanitise the "helptags_one()" function when running the "helptags" command. By tricking a user into running a crafted help fi...

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security advisory security issue software update remote code execution critical flaw ubuntu vim

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-505-1 August 28, 2007

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security advisory security issue software update remote code execution critical flaw ubuntu vim

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