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TITLE:
Vim Modelines "feedkeys()" Shell Command Execution

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25024

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25024/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Vim 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/13401/

DESCRIPTION:
Tomas Golembiovsky has discovered a vulnerability in Vim, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing e.g. the
"feedkeys()" function to be called in the sandbox. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary commands with privileges of the Vim
user.

Successful exploitation requires that the "modelines" option is
enabled and the user is tricked into opening a malicious file.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 7.0.219. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.0.235.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tomas Golembiovsky

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://marc.info/?l=vim-dev&m=117762581821298&w=2

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