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vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-12735: neovim, vim -- security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 5, 2019
Added
Jun 19, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

getchar.c in Vim before 8.1.1365 and Neovim before 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the :source! command in a modeline, as demonstrated by execute in Vim, and assert_fails or nvim_input in Neovim.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-neovimdebian-upgrade-vim
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