CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-1248
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
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 configurations
• vim vim (<= 8.0.0055)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/20 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2972.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3722 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94478 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037338 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3139-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-vim/vim.git/tree/debian/changelog Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/4fad66fbe637818b6b3d6bc5d21923ba72795040 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d0b5138ba4bccff8a744c99836041ef6322ed39a Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.0.0056 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/11/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00305.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-29 security.gentoo.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/20 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2972.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3722 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94478 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037338 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3139-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-vim/vim.git/tree/debian/changelog Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/4fad66fbe637818b6b3d6bc5d21923ba72795040 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d0b5138ba4bccff8a744c99836041ef6322ed39a Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.0.0056 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/11/msg00025.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00305.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-29 security.gentoo.org