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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-850-1 vim -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

10 Mar 2017

Affected Packages:

vim

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6349, CVE-2017-6350.

More information:

Brief introduction

• CVE-2017-6349

  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.

• CVE-2017-6350

  An integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site would occur for vim before patch 8.0.0378, if it does not properly validate values for tree length when reading a corrupted undo file, which may lead to resultant buffer overflows.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:7.3.547-7+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.

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