Vim 'mch_expand_wildcards()' - Heap Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30648/info Vim is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the...

CVE-2008-3432: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Heap-based buffer overflow in the mchexpandwildcards function in osunix.c in Vim 6.2 and 6.3 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in filenames, as demonstrated by the netrw.v3 test case...