FKIE_CVE-2016-1248
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-11-23 15:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:41
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| vim | vim | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 |
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