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CVE-2016-1248 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (neovim, vim), 12 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 6, DNE 4, not-affected 2.
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.