USN-4016-2: Neovim vulnerability
11 June 2019
Neovim could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
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
Ubuntu 18.10
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4016-1: vim-runtime, vim-common, vim-doc, vim-tiny, vim, vim-nox-py2, vim-athena-py2, vim-gtk-py2, vim-gnome-py2, xxd, vim-nox, vim-gtk, vim-gui-common, vim-athena, vim-gnome, vim-gtk3-py2, vim-gtk3
- USN-4862-1: neovim-runtime, neovim