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CVE-2017-5953

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

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.

Affected products

• vim/vim: through 8.0.0055

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217
• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3786
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96217
• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26

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