USN-3139-1: Vim vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3139-1

28th November, 2016

vim vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Vim could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software description

• vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor

Details

Florian Larysch discovered that the Vim text editor did not properly
validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax', and 'keymap' options. An
attacker could trick a user into opening a file with specially crafted
modelines and possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 16.10:

vim-common 2:7.4.1829-1ubuntu2.1

vim-runtime 2:7.4.1829-1ubuntu2.1

vim-gui-common 2:7.4.1829-1ubuntu2.1

vim 2:7.4.1829-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

vim-common 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2

vim-runtime 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2

vim-gui-common 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2

vim 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

vim-common 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1

vim-runtime 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1

vim-gui-common 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1

vim 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

vim-common 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2

vim-runtime 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2

vim-gui-common 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2

vim 2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to restart Vim to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-1248

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2gC2G3r