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[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for vim



Norbert Tretkowski uploaded new packages for vim which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2008-4101, Debian Bug #500381

  Vim 3.0 through 7.x before 7.2.010 does not properly escape
  characters, which allows user-assisted attackers to (1) execute
  arbitrary shell commands by entering a K keystroke on a line that
  contains a ";" (semicolon) followed by a command, or execute arbitrary
  Ex commands by entering an argument after a (2) "Ctrl-]" (control
  close-square-bracket) or (3) "g]" (g close-square-bracket) keystroke
  sequence, a different issue than CVE-2008-2712.

For the etch-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2~bpo40+2.

For the lenny distribution the problems have been fixed in version
1:7.1.314-3+lenny2.

For the sid distribution the problems have been fixed in version
2:7.2.049-1.

Upgrade instructions
--------------------

If you don't use pinning (see [1]) you have to update the packages
manually via "apt-get -t etch-backports install <packagelist>" with the
packagelist of your installed packages affected by this update.
[1] <http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions>

We recommend to pin the backports repository to 200 so that new versions
of installed  backports will be installed automatically:

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=etch-backports
  Pin-Priority: 200

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