vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2017-1000382

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 31, 2017
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

VIM version 8.0.1187 (and other versions most likely) ignores umask when creating a swap file ("[ORIGINAL_FILENAME].swp") resulting in files that may be world readable or otherwise accessible in ways not intended by the user running the vi binary.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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