Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59193
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-505-1 (vim)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-505-1 (vim)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to vim announced via advisory USN-505-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. Details follow: Ulf Harnhammar discovered that vim does not properly sanitise the helptags_one() function when running the helptags command. By tricking a user into running a crafted help file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: vim 1:6.4-006+2ubuntu6.1 Ubuntu 6.10: vim 1:7.0-035+1ubuntu5.2 Ubuntu 7.04: vim 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.2 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-505-1 Risk factor : High
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2953 Bugtraq: 20070730 FLEA-2007-0036-1 vim vim-minimal gvim (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/475076/100/100/threaded Bugtraq: 20090401 VMSA-2009-0004 ESX Service Console updates for openssl, bind, and vim (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502322/100/0/threaded http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-66/advisory/ Debian Security Information: DSA-1364 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:168 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:236 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0617.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0580.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:018 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-505-1 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001770.html BugTraq ID: 25095 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25095 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11549 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6463 http://secunia.com/advisories/32858 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2687 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0033 http://secunia.com/advisories/25941 http://secunia.com/advisories/26285 http://secunia.com/advisories/26594 http://secunia.com/advisories/26653 http://secunia.com/advisories/26674 http://secunia.com/advisories/26822 http://secunia.com/advisories/26522 http://secunia.com/advisories/33410 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0904 XForce ISS Database: vim-helptagsone-code-execution(35655) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35655
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