Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1248: Security patch for vim (ALAS-2016-779)
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/23/2016
07/25/2018
12/20/2016
10/14/2022
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(s)
- amazon-linux-upgrade-vim
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