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[scsijon]

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Subject: [lfs-dev] Vim CVE-2019-12735
Message-ID: <20190614221658.GA31361@milliways.localdomain>
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It is possible for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary OS
commands in vim up to version 8.1.1364 via the :source! command in a
modeline of a malicious file (all you have to do is open the file in
vim).

A workaround is to disable modelines in vimrc :

set nomodeline

I could tell you that there is a "good" version of vim (8.1.1529
which was current when I cloned it) in my webspace at higgs, but if
you were to just use that then you have bigger security problems
(unverified source).

If you need an urgent fix, the upstream mercurial repository is at
https://www.vim.org/mercurial.php

The individual change which fixed this adds a new test to check it
works, and that relies on earlier changes since 8.1. Also, if
running the tests as root (chroot) some tests will fail. So, for
the moment "please be aware".

ĸen
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scsijon

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