CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5953
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• vim vim (<= 8.0.0055)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY groups.google.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY groups.google.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/ usn.ubuntu.com