PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-02-10
Candidate: CVE-2017-5953
PublicDate: 2017-02-10 07:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5953
 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4016-1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4309-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854969
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: leosilva
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]

Patches_vim:
 upstream: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d
upstream_vim: released (2:8.0.0197-2)
precise_vim: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_vim: released (2:7.3.429-2ubuntu2.3)
trusty_vim: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_vim: released (2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm1)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_vim: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_vim: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_vim: released (2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.3)
esm-infra/xenial_vim: released (2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.3)
yakkety_vim: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_vim: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_vim: not-affected (2:8.0.0197-4ubuntu5)
bionic_vim: not-affected (2:8.0.1144-1ubuntu1)
cosmic_vim: not-affected (2:8.0.1144-1ubuntu1)
disco_vim: not-affected (2:8.0.1144-1ubuntu1)
eoan_vim: not-affected (2:8.0.1144-1ubuntu1)
devel_vim: not-affected (2:8.0.1144-1ubuntu1)

Patches_neovim:
 upstream: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d
upstream_neovim: released (0.1.7-4)
precise_neovim: DNE
precise/esm_neovim: DNE
trusty_neovim: DNE
trusty/esm_neovim: DNE
xenial_neovim: DNE
bionic_neovim: not-affected (0.2.2-3)
cosmic_neovim: not-affected (0.2.2-3)
disco_neovim: not-affected (0.2.2-3)
eoan_neovim: not-affected (0.2.2-3)
devel_neovim: not-affected (0.2.2-3)