CVE-2004-1138

Summary

CVECVE-2004-1138
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-01-10 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-11 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionVIM before 6.3 and gVim before 6.3 allow local users to execute arbitrary commands via a file containing a crafted modeline that is executed when the file is viewed using options such as (1) termcap, (2) printdevice, (3) titleold, (4) filetype, (5) syntax, (6) backupext, (7) keymap, (8) patchmode, or (9) langmenu.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.0 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.1 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.2 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.3 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.4 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.5 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.6 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.7 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.8 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.0 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.1 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.2 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.011 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.025 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.030 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.044 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.0 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.1 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.2 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.3 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.4 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.5 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.6 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.7 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 5.8 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.0 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.1 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.2 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.011 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.025 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.030 All All All
Application Vim Development Group Vim 6.3.044 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Vim, gVim: Vulnerable options in modelines GENTOO www.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
FLSA:2343 FEDORA bugzilla.fedora.us
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
'[OpenPKG-SA-2004.052] OpenPKG Security Advisory (vim)' - MARC OPENPKG marc.info
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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