SB2017060109 - Integer overflow in neovim (Alpine package) 



SB2017060109 - Integer overflow in neovim (Alpine package)

Published: June 1, 2017

Security Bulletin ID SB2017060109
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6349)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.