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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2016:2972-01 Moderate: Vim Execution Risk

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An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.
Security Fix(es):
* A vulnerability was found in vim in how certain modeline options were treated. An attacker could craft a file that, when opened in vim with modelines enabled, could execute arbitrary commands with privileges of the user running vim. (CVE-2016-1248)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix moderate impact Red Hat Enterprise threat mitigation vim update execution risk

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1248 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source: vim-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.src.rpm
i386: vim-X11-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-common-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-minimal-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: vim-X11-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-common-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-minimal-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source: vim-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.src.rpm
x86_64: vim-common-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-minimal-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6):
x86_64: vim-X11-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: vim-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.src.rpm
i386: vim-X11-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-common-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2972-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2972.html
Issue date: 2016-12-21

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix moderate impact Red Hat Enterprise threat mitigation vim update execution risk

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1398227 - CVE-2016-1248 vim: Lack of validation of values for few options results in code exection

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