1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-61-1

USN-61-1: vim vulnerabilities

Publication date

19 January 2005

Overview

vim vulnerabilities

Releases

Details

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the auxillary scripts
“tcltags” and “vimspell.sh” created temporary files in an insecure
manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite
arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script
(either by calling it directly or by execution through vim).

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the auxillary scripts
“tcltags” and “vimspell.sh” created temporary files in an insecure
manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite
arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script
(either by calling it directly or by execution through vim).

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
4.10 warty vim-tcl – 
vim-gnome – 
vim-lesstif – 
vim-gtk – 
kvim – 
vim – 
vim-python – 
vim-perl – 

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