USN-3139-1: Vim vulnerability

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

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.

Affected Products and Versions

_Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
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• Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells are vulnerable, including:
  • All versions prior to 3151.5
  • 3233.x versions prior to 3233.6
  • 3263.x versions prior to 3263.12
  • 3312.x versions prior to 3312.7
  • All other versions
• All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.92.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• The Cloud Foundry team recommends upgrading to the following BOSH stemcells:
  • Upgrade all lower versions of 3151.x to version 3151.5
  • Upgrade all lower versions of 3233.x to version 3233.6
  • Upgrade all lower versions of 3263.x to version 3263.12
  • Upgrade all lower versions of 3312.x to version 3312.7
• The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.92.0 or later versions

Credit

Florian Larysch

References

• <http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-1248.html&gt;