Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting vim package, versions <2:8.0.0197-2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.04% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-VIM-525313
- published 10 Feb 2017
- disclosed 10 Feb 2017
Introduced: 10 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-5953 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
vim
to version 2:8.0.0197-2 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 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5953
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5953
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5953
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/