User Arminius discovered a vulnerability in Vim, an enhanced version of the standard UNIX editor Vi (Vi IMproved). The Common vulnerabilities and exposures project identifies the following problem: 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 Vim. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.0197-4+deb9u2. We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages. For the detailed security status of vim please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/vim
User Arminius
discovered a vulnerability in Vim, an enhanced version of the
standard UNIX editor Vi (Vi IMproved). The Common vulnerabilities and
exposures project
identifies the following problem:
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 Vim.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 8.0.0197-4+deb9u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.
For the detailed security status of vim please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/vim
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