=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-463-1 May 22, 2007 vim vulnerability CVE-2007-2438 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.10: vim 1:7.0-035+1ubuntu5.1 Ubuntu 7.04: vim 1:7.0-164+1ubuntu7.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Tomas Golembiovsky discovered that some vim commands were accidentally allowed in modelines. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file in vim, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.