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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1444-1 vim-syntastic -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

26 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

vim-syntastic

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-11319.

More information:

• CVE-2018-11319

  The improper handling of search for configuration files might be exploited for arbitrary code execution via a malicious gcc plugin.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.0-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your vim-syntastic packages.

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