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could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.\nThis issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.\n(CVE-2017-5953)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain inputs.\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.\nThis issue only affected Ubuntu 16.06 LTS. 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