Bug 461750 (CVE-2008-4677)
Summary: | CVE-2008-4677 vim: netrw plugin: FTP username and password disclosure | ||
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Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov> |
Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | karsten |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2009-01-08 11:12:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Jan Lieskovsky
2008-09-10 12:36:54 UTC
Link to thread discussing this vulnerability: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/2f6fad581a037971/a5fcf4c4981d34e6?show_docid=a5fcf4c4981d34e6# Proposed partial fix: http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW This issue did not affect the versions of vim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5. All stable Fedora versions were updated to vim upstream version 7.2.060, which contains netrw plugin version that prompts for new password when connecting to new FTP site. Update requests: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-10587 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-10644 |