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CVE-2017-5953
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-02-10T07:59:00.263 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:21:30.147

Summary

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

vim — vim

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References

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