suse · CVE-2007-2438

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 12:38:49 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:34:19 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-2438 severity important: SUSE including 23 source package names (gvim-7.2-8.15.2, gvim-7.2-8.8, …), 31 product×package rows across 8 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, … (8 product lines)): Fixed 31.

Description:

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.

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