Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4487-1 neovim -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 23 Jul 2019
- Affected Packages:
- neovim
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12735.
- More information:
-
User
Arminius
discovered a vulnerability in Vim, an enhanced version of the standard UNIX editor Vi (Vi IMproved), which also affected the Neovim fork, an extensible editor focused on modern code and features:Editors typically provide a way to embed editor configuration commands (aka modelines) which are executed once a file is opened, while harmful commands are filtered by a sandbox mechanism. It was discovered that the
source
command (used to include and execute another file) was not filtered, allowing shell command execution with a carefully crafted file opened in Neovim.For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.7-4+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your neovim packages.