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Alpine: multiple neovim packages: security update to 0.1.6-r1

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405705

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - vim before patch 8.0.0056 does not properly validate values for the 'filetype', 'syntax' and 'keymap'
 options, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a file with a specially crafted modeline
 is opened. (CVE-2016-1248)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-1248

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405705

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-1248

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1248

BID: 94478