vim: command injection when decompressing .tgz archives

A flaw was found in Vim. When decompressing .tgz archives, the Vimuntar function builds shell commands using shellescape without the special flag. This allows a specially crafted archive filename to trigger Vim cmdline-special expansion and execute arbitrary commands in the context of the current...

SUSE CVE-2008-3074

The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "!" exclamation point shell metacharacter in 1 the filename of a tar archive and possibly 2 the filename of the first file in a tar archive, which is not properly...

plugin: improper Implementation of shellescape() (arbitrary code execution)

The shellescape function in Vim 7.0 through 7.2, including 7.2a.10, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the "!" exclamation point shell metacharacter in 1 the filename of a tar archive and possibly 2 the filename of the first file in a tar archive, which is not properly...