Help poor children in Uganda

Georgi Guninski security advisory #75, 2005

Help poor children in Uganda!

Systems affected:
vim 6.3

Date: 25 July 2005

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Description:

open file in vim 6.3 < 6.3.082 with modelines on, got owned.

Details:



Workaround:

Disable modelines via
1. (preferred)
set modelines=0
and/or
set nomodeline
in .vimrc

or
2.
upgrade to 6.3.082 - patch available at:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/6.3/

--
where do you want bill gates to go today?