CVE-2017-6350 (GCVE-0-2017-6350)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-27 07:25 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:25
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Summary
An integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site would occur for vim before patch 8.0.0378, if it does not properly validate values for tree length when reading a corrupted undo file, which may lead to resultant buffer overflows.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-02-27 00:00
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