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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6349: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6349: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2017
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

An integer overflow at a u_read_undo memory allocation site would occur for vim before patch 8.0.0377, if it does not properly validate values for tree length when reading a corrupted undo file, which may lead to resultant buffer overflows.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-vim
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-neovim

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