vulnerability

CentOS: (CVE-2016-1248) CESA-2016:2972: vim

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 23, 2016
Added
Jan 27, 2017
Modified
May 7, 2019

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.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-vim-commoncentos-upgrade-vim-enhancedcentos-upgrade-vim-filesystemcentos-upgrade-vim-minimalcentos-upgrade-vim-x11
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