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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-1619-01 Important: Vim Arbitrary Command Execution

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial Red Hat notification outlines vim security patch addressing execution vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies. Discover further!
An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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):
* vim/neovim: ':source!' command allows arbitrary command execution via modelines (CVE-2019-12735)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important arbitrary execution vim

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-12735 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: vim-7.4.160-6.el7_6.src.rpm
x86_64: vim-X11-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-common-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-minimal-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: vim-7.4.160-6.el7_6.src.rpm
x86_64: vim-common-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-minimal-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: vim-X11-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-6.el7_6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: vim-7.4.160-6.el7_6.src.rpm
ppc64: vim-X11-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64.rpm vim-common-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64.rpm vim-minimal-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: vim-X11-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm vim-common-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm vim-enhanced-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm vim-filesystem-7.4.160-6.el7_6.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1619-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1619
Issue date: 2019-06-26

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important arbitrary execution vim

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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 Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x

Bugs Fixed

1718308 - CVE-2019-12735 vim/neovim: ':source!' command allows arbitrary command execution via modelines

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