fkie_cve-2007-2438
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-05-02 21:19
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| foresight_linux | foresight_linux | 1.1 | |
| vim_development_group | vim | 7.0 |
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|---|
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