oss-security - Re: [oss-list] CVE request (vim)

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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:13:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [oss-list] CVE request (vim)

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, [UTF-8] PÄ±nar YanardaÄ^_ wrote:

> Jan Lieskovsky wrote On 09/11/2008 05:56 PM:
> > (...)
> >
> > Report: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-K.html  [1]
> > Proposed patch: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/attach/dd32ad3a84f36bb2/K-arbitrary-command-execution.patch?part=2
> >
>
>
> Unfortunately, this patch was incomplete and  rdancer has released
> another patch for this issue:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/1434d0812b5c817e/f730da13efe2dd73?hide_quotes=no#msg_9290f26f9bc11b33

It's not clear whether to merge this with CVE-2008-4101 - if the original
incomplete patch made it into some distro or public version of vim then
OK, but we generally don't distinguish between patches (CVE-wise) when
they're all part of the same bug discussion and there hasn't been a
release.

- Steve

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