vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1248: Security patch for vim (ALAS-2016-779)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 23, 2016
Added
Dec 20, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

vim before patch 8.0.0056 does not properly validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax' and 'keymap' options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline is opened.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-vim
Title
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