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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-3294 to the following vulnerability: src/configure.in in Vim 5.0 through 7.1, when used for a build with Python support, does not ensure that the Makefile-conf temporary file has the intended ownership and permissions, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by writing to this file during a time window associated with a race condition. References: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-configure.in.html http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Jul/0312.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31159 Proposed patch: http://www.rdancer.org/vulnerablevim-configure.in.patch
This issue can only be exploited during the package build and it does not affect users of pre-built packages distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora. Therefore, we do not plan to backport a fix for this issue to already released version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Additionally, this issue requires an attacker to win a race against build process, with very short time window for successful attack, giving an attacker a low chance of success.