Re: vim 6.3.82 (possibly others) DoS (and perhaps potential exploit) report

2007-11-04 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Chris Drake wrote: It's possible to craft a malformed .swp file that causes vim to crash in a way that completely locks up a terminal. I can't do much without such a .swp file. To be able to reproduce the problem I would need both the original file and the .swp file that has the problem.

vim 6.3.82 (possibly others) DoS (and perhaps potential exploit) report

2007-11-02 Fir de Conversatie Chris Drake
Hi, It's possible to craft a malformed .swp file that causes vim to crash in a way that completely locks up a terminal. Here's what was on my screen when it occurred: E325: ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name .Accounting.pm.swp owned by: root dated: Sat Nov 3 04:36:39 2007