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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-822-1 vim -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

13 Feb 2017

Affected Packages:

vim

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5953.

More information:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Vim where a malformed spell file could cause an integer overflow which is used as the size for memory allocation, resulting in a subsequent buffer overflow.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:7.3.547-7+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Cheers,