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CVE-2017-5953

CVE-2017-5953

EPSS 2.8%
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 products
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References
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9dhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHYhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217