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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:30:31 +0100
From: Christian Brabandt <cb@...bit.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files


On Fr, 03 Nov 2017, Scott Court wrote:

> " Move the swap file location to protect against CVE-2017-1000382
> " More information at http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=120
> " A big thanks goes to Christian Brabandt (cb@...bit.org)
> " for helping with this fix.
> if ! isdirectory("~/.vim/swap/")
>         silent !install -d -m 700 ~/.vim/swap/ 2>&1 > /dev/null

make this
         call system('install -d -m 700 ~/.vim/swap')

Christian
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