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CVE-2016-1248

CVE-2016-1248

EPSS 25.5%
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.
Affected products
n/a · vim before patch 8.0.0056

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References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/20http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2972.htmlhttps://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-vim/vim.git/tree/debian/changeloghttps://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/4fad66fbe637818b6b3d6bc5d21923ba72795040https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d0b5138ba4bccff8a744c99836041ef6322ed39ahttps://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.0.0056https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/11/msg00025.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00305.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-29http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3722http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94478http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037338