FKIE_CVE-2017-11109

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-07-08 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:01
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Vim 8.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted source (aka -S) file. NOTE: there might be a limited number of scenarios in which this has security relevance.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468492Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468492Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vim vim 8.0
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:01:14.063",
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