Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3786-1 vim -- security update

Date Reported:
13 Feb 2017
Affected Packages:
vim
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 854969.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5953.
More information:

Editor spell files passed to the vim (Vi IMproved) editor may result in an integer overflow in memory allocation and a resulting buffer overflow which potentially could result in the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2:8.0.0197-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your vim packages.