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Alpine: vim: security update to 7.4.1831-r3

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 407481

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2017-5953)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-5953

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 407481

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5953

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5953

BID: 96217