Vulnerability CVE-2016-1248
Published: 2016-11-23

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
VIM -> VIM 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/20
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2972.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3722
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94478
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037338
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3139-1
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-vim/vim.git/tree/debian/changelog
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/4fad66fbe637818b6b3d6bc5d21923ba72795040
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/d0b5138ba4bccff8a744c99836041ef6322ed39a
https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v8.0.0056
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/11/msg00025.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00305.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-29
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