USN-4016-2: Neovim vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10

Packages

• 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)

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

• CVE-2019-12735

Related notices

• USN-4016-1: vim-common, xxd, vim, vim-tiny, vim-gtk, vim-gui-common, vim-athena, vim-gnome, vim-gtk-py2, vim-athena-py2, vim-nox-py2, vim-gtk3-py2, vim-gtk3, vim-runtime, vim-nox, vim-doc, vim-gnome-py2
• USN-4862-1: neovim-runtime, neovim