CVE-2017-5953

Name	CVE-2017-5953
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-822-1, DSA-3786-1
Debian Bugs	854969

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
neovim (PTS)	bookworm	0.7.2-7	fixed
	trixie	0.10.4-8	fixed
	forky, sid	0.12.4-1	fixed
vim (PTS)	bookworm	2:9.0.1378-2+deb12u2	fixed
	trixie	2:9.1.1230-2	fixed
	forky, sid	2:9.2.0858-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
neovim	source	(unstable)	0.1.7-4
vim	source	wheezy	2:7.3.547-7+deb7u2	DLA-822-1
vim	source	jessie	2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2	DSA-3786-1
vim	source	(unstable)	2:8.0.0197-2		854969

Fixed by: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/399c297aa93afe2c0a39e2a1b3f972aebba44c9d