USN-61-1: vim vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the auxillary scripts
"tcltags" and "vimspell.sh" created temporary files in an insecure
manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite
arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script
(either by calling it directly or by execution through vim).

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 4.10

• vim-tcl -
• vim-gnome -
• vim-lesstif -
• vim-gtk -
• kvim -
• vim -
• vim-python -
• vim-perl -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-0069