CVE-2017-5953
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-10 06:51
Modified
2024-08-05 15:18
Severity ?
Summary
vim before patch 8.0.0322 does not properly validate values for tree length when handling a spell file, which may result in an integer overflow at a memory allocation site and a resultant buffer overflow.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9dPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9dPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
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