fkie_cve-2007-2953
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-07-31 10:17
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
Format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function in src/ex_cmds.c in Vim 6.4 and earlier, and 7.x up to 7.1, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file, related to the helptags command.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| vim_development_group | vim | * | |
| vim_development_group | vim | 7.0 | |
| vim_development_group | vim | 7.1 | |
| vim_development_group | vim | 7.1.38 |
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