Yellow Dog Linux Security Announcement
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Package:	vim	
Issue Date: 	July 25, 2001
Priority:	medium		
Advisory ID: 	YDU-20010725-13


1. 	Topic:

	Updated vim packages are available which fix
	a potential security problem.


2. 	Problem:

	"Users could embed malicious VIM control codes into a
	file - as soon as any user opened that file in vim-enhanced
	or vim-X11 with the status line option enabled in .vimrc,
	the commands would be executed as that user."
	(from Red Hat's security advisory)


3. 	Solution:

   	a) Updating via yup...
   	We suggest that you use the Yellow Dog Update Program (yup)
   	to keep your system up-to-date. The following command(s) will
   	automatically retrieve and install the fixed version of
   	this update onto your system:

   		yup update vim
		yup update vim-common
		yup update vim-enhanced
		yup update vim-minimal

   	b) Updating manually...
   	The update can also be retrieved manually from our ftp site
   	below along with the rpm command that should be used to install
   	the update.  (Please use a mirror site)

   		ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-2.0/ppc/RPMS/
		rpm -Fvh vim-5.7-8.ppc.rpm
		rpm -Fvh vim-common-5.7-8.ppc.rpm
		rpm -Fvh vim-enhanced-5.7-8.ppc.rpm
		rpm -Fvh vim-minimal-5.7-8.ppc.rpm 


4. Verification

MD5 checksum			  Package
--------------------------------  ----------------------------
d85c161740860392a1f2aeda6fb6cf3a  SRPMS/vim-5.7-8.src.rpm
33b96d737e0311a60d0e53f44e634f96  ppc/RPMS/vim-X11-5.7-8.ppc.rpm
a04bf7ce2c0263556bd42c77b436ec30  ppc/RPMS/vim-common-5.7-8.ppc.rpm
9c40b6a45b5577feda9838fb20eaf846  ppc/RPMS/vim-enhanced-5.7-8.ppc.rpm
ce29a43ace9d7ebfba36db302b2b98f5  ppc/RPMS/vim-minimal-5.7-8.ppc.rpm

If you wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with,
examine the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg filename


5. Misc.

Terra Soft has setup a moderated mailing list where these security, bugfix, and package
enhancement announcements will be posted. See http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/ for more
information.

For information regarding the usage of yup, the Yellow Dog Update Program, see 
http://http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yup.shtml