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Ubuntu 4016-2: Neovim Vulnerability CVE-2019-12735 Critical Risk

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Enhance your Neovim setup on Ubuntu to patch a serious vulnerability permitting code execution. Find the specifics here.
Neovim could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Neovim could be made to run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- neovim: heavily refactored vim fork

Details:

It was discovered that Neovim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker

could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12735)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution update instructions ubuntu neovim

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
  neovim                          0.3.4-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
  neovim-runtime                  0.3.4-1ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
  neovim                          0.3.1-1ubuntu0.1
  neovim-runtime                  0.3.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4016-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4016-1

CVE-2019-12735

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June 11, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution update instructions ubuntu neovim

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neovim/0.3.4-1ubuntu0.19.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neovim/0.3.1-1ubuntu0.1

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