CVE-2017-5953
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.49%vim - security update
Published: 2/10/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (5)
- Alpine/vimfrom 0, < 8.0.0329-r0
- Debian/neovimfrom 0, < 0.1.7-4
- Debian/vimfrom 0, < 2:8.0.0197-2
- Debian/vimfrom 0, < 2:7.3.547-7+deb7u2
- Debian/vimfrom 0, < 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |