Bug 609150 (CVE-2017-5953)

Summary:	<app-editors/{vim,gvim}-8.0.0386: Tree length values not validated properly when handling a spell file (CVE-2017-5953)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	ncl
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	vim
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ncl 2017-02-12 17:34:23 UTC

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.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/t-3RSdEnrHY
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d

Comment 1 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2017-02-16 01:31:49 UTC

Thank you for the report

Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-06-03 14:28:01 UTC

Added to an existing GLSA request.

Cleanup will happen in bug 611386.

Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-06-22 19:20:17 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201706-26 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26
by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F).