Debian Security Advisory DSA 4261-1 (vim-syntastic - security update)

Enrico Zini discovered a vulnerability in Syntastic, an addon module for the Vim editor that runs a file through external checkers and displays any resulting errors. Config files were looked up in the current working directory which could result in arbitrary shell code execution if a malformed source code file is opened.

vim-syntastic on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.7.0-1+deb9u2. We recommend that you upgrade your vim-syntastic packages. For the detailed security status of vim-syntastic please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.