vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-c11629d3-c8ad-11e6-ae1b-002590263bf5 (CVE-2016-1248): vim -- arbitrary command execution

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 23, 2016
Added
Dec 23, 2016
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Mitre reports: 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

freebsd-upgrade-package-vimfreebsd-upgrade-package-vim-consolefreebsd-upgrade-package-vim-litefreebsd-upgrade-package-neovim
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