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CVE-2017-5953

Public on 2017-02-10
Modified on 2017-03-29
Description

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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 vim 2017-03-29 16:45 ALAS-2017-809

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 2.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H