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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-13
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PACKAGE : vim vim-core gvim
SUMMARY : arbitrary code execution
DATE    : 2003-01-22 11:48 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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- From advisory: 

"Opening a specially crafted text file with vim can execute arbitrary shell 
commands and pass parameters to them."
 
Read the full advisory at  
http://www.guninski.com/vim1.html
 
SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
affected versions of app-editors/{vim,vim-core,gvim} upgrade as follows:

emerge sync

If you are running app-editos/vim-core upgrade to vim-core-6.1-r4 :

emerge -u vim-core

If you are running app-editos/vim upgrade to vim-6.1-r19 :

emerge -u vim

If you are running app-editos/gvim upgrade to gvim-6.1-r6 :

emerge -u gvim

emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
rphillips@gentoo.org
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