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  Vim modelines Remote Command Execution 1

Category: BAD-FILES      

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.

References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1248


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