CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2953

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-07-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-07-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• vim development group vim (<= 6.4) • vim development group vim 7.0 • vim development group vim 7.1 • vim development group vim 7.1.38

References