Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting vim package, versions <2:8.0.0197-3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.94% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-VIM-314730
- published 27 Feb 2017
- disclosed 27 Feb 2017
Introduced: 27 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-6349 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
vim
to version 2:8.0.0197-3 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:unstable
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6349
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6349
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/3eb1637b1bba19519885dd6d377bd5596e91d22c
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/LAgsTcdSfNA
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/QPZc0CY9j3Y
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/LAgsTcdSfNA
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/QPZc0CY9j3Y
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96451
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037949
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6349