Severity
Medium
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Description
Florian Larysch discovered that the Vim text editor did not properly validate values for the ‘filetype’, ‘syntax’, and ‘keymap’ options. An attacker could trick a user into opening a file with specially crafted modelines and possibly execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
Affected Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells are vulnerable, including:
- All versions prior to 3151.5
- 3233.x versions prior to 3233.6
- 3263.x versions prior to 3263.12
- 3312.x versions prior to 3312.7
- All other versions
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.92.0
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- The Cloud Foundry team recommends upgrading to the following BOSH stemcells:
- Upgrade all lower versions of 3151.x to version 3151.5
- Upgrade all lower versions of 3233.x to version 3233.6
- Upgrade all lower versions of 3263.x to version 3263.12
- Upgrade all lower versions of 3312.x to version 3312.7
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.92.0 or later versions
Credit
Florian Larysch
