Use After Free Affecting vim package, versions <2:8.0.0197-5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.13% (48th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-VIM-515729
- published 8 Jul 2017
- disclosed 8 Jul 2017
Introduced: 8 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-11109 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
vim
to version 2:8.0.0197-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim
package and not the vim
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11109
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00003.html
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-11109.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468492
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-11109