7.2 - USN-52-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	vim vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-52-1	First vendor Publication	2004-12-23
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2004-12-23
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score	7.2	Attack Range	Local
Cvss Impact Score	10	Attack Complexity	Low
Cvss Expoit Score	3.9	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

The following packages are affected:

kvim vim vim-gnome vim-gtk vim-lesstif vim-perl vim-python vim-tcl

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:6.3-025+1ubuntu2.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Ciaran McCreesh found several vulnerabilities related to the use of options in Vim modeline commands, such as 'termcap', 'printdevice', 'titleold', 'filetype', 'syntax', 'backupext', 'keymap', 'patchmode', and 'langmenu'.

If an attacker tricked an user to open a file with a specially crafted modeline, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges.