Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting vim-common package, versions <2:8.0.0503-1.45.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-VIMCOMMON-1705428
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed27 Feb 2017

Introduced: 27 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-6349  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 vim-common to version 2:8.0.0503-1.45.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2017-809.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-common package and not the vim-common package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

An integer overflow at a u_read_undo memory allocation site would occur for vim before patch 8.0.0377, if it does not properly validate values for tree length when reading a corrupted undo file, which may lead to resultant buffer overflows.