cve/2017/CVE-2017-5953.md

### [CVE-2017-5953](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5953)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4016-1/

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon