USN-3139-1: Vim vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 16.10

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

Ubuntu 16.04

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

Ubuntu 14.04

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

Ubuntu 12.04

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

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

References

• CVE-2016-1248