Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3722-1 vim -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 22 Nov 2016
- Affected Packages:
- vim
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1248.
- More information:
-
Florian Larysch and Bram Moolenaar discovered that vim, an enhanced vi editor, does not properly validate values for the
filetype
,syntax
andkeymap
options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline is opened.For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.