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Debian: CVE-2017-6349: neovim, vim -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-6349: neovim, vim -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/31/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-neovim
  • debian-upgrade-vim

References

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