CVE-2008-3076

Publication date 21 February 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The Netrw plugin 125 in netrw.vim in Vim 7.2a.10 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the execute and system functions within the (1) mz and (2) mc commands, as demonstrated by the netrw.v2 and netrw.v3 test cases. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2712.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vim 8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
7.10 gutsy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

This was patched in vim from usn-712-1