PT-2017-17014 · Vim+3 · Vim+3

King · Published 2017-02-27 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-6349

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions vim versions prior to 8.0.0377

Description The issue arises from an integer overflow at a u read undo memory allocation site. This occurs when vim does not properly validate values for tree length while reading a corrupted undo file, potentially leading to buffer overflows.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.0.0377, update to a version that includes patch 8.0.0377 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1281

CVE-2017-6349

DLA-850-1

MGASA-2017-0275

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11081-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11497-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1712-1

SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1

USN-4309-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Vim

References · 254

• https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/3eb1637b1bba19519885dd6d377bd5596e91d22c · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4309-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11497-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20079 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0275.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1712-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-26 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6349 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:4619-1 · Vendor Advisory