Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-1000382

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - VIM version 8.0.1187 and other versions most likely ignores umask when creating a swap file ORIGINALFILENAME.swp resulting in files that may be world readable o...

CVE-2017-17087

fileio.c in Vim prior to 8.0.1263 sets the group ownership of a .swp file to the editor's primary group which may be different from the group ownership of the original file, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging an applicable group membership, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2017-1000382

It was found that vim applies the opened file read permissions to the swap file, overriding the process' umask. An attacker might search for vim swap files that were not deleted properly, in order to retrieve sensitive data...