CVE-2004-1138 - Antipathetic Summary

Description

VIM 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.

Reference

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-10.xml https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2343 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-010.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-036.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110313588125609&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18503 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9571