CVE-2017-5953

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5953
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-02-10 07:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:49:00 UTC
Descriptionvim 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vim Vim All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4016-1: Vim vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
USN-4309-1: Vim vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Vim CVE-2017-5953 Local Integer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
patch 8.0.0322: possible overflow with corrupted spell file · vim/vim@399c297 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Google Groups CONFIRM groups.google.com
Google Groups groups.google.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3786-1 vim DEBIAN www.debian.org
Vim, gVim: Remote execution of arbitrary code (GLSA 201706-26) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500722 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 501091 Alpine Linux Security Update for neovim
  • 504496 Alpine Linux Security Update for vim
  • 505084 Alpine Linux Security Update for neovim
  • 710323 Gentoo Linux Vim, gVim Remote execution of arbitrary code Vulnerability (GLSA 201706-26)
  • 753066 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for vim (SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1)
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