vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-1248: Moderate: vim security update (RHSA-2016:2972)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 23, 2016
Added
Dec 21, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-vim-commonredhat-upgrade-vim-debuginforedhat-upgrade-vim-enhancedredhat-upgrade-vim-filesystemredhat-upgrade-vim-minimalredhat-upgrade-vim-x11
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