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[RHSA-2016:2972-01] Moderate: vim security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Moderate: vim security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:2972-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2972.html

Issue date: 2016-12-21

CVE Names: CVE-2016-1248

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1. Summary:

 

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

Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact

of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which

gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

the CVE link(s) in the References section.

 

2. 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

 

3. Description:

 

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)

 

4. 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

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

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

 

6. 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

vim-minimal-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

vim-X11-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-common-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

vim-X11-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.s390x.rpm

vim-common-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.s390x.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.s390x.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.s390x.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.s390x.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.629-5.el6_8.1.s390x.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 Workstation (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 Client (v. 7):

 

Source:

vim-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.src.rpm

 

x86_64:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):

 

Source:

vim-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.src.rpm

 

x86_64:

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):

 

x86_64:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):

 

Source:

vim-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.src.rpm

 

aarch64:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.aarch64.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.aarch64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.aarch64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.aarch64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.aarch64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.aarch64.rpm

 

ppc64:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64.rpm

 

ppc64le:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64le.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64le.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64le.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64le.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64le.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.ppc64le.rpm

 

s390x:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.s390x.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.s390x.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.s390x.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.s390x.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.s390x.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

 

Source:

vim-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.src.rpm

 

x86_64:

vim-X11-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-enhanced-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-filesystem-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

vim-minimal-7.4.160-1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

 

7. References:

 

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1248

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.

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