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CVE-2026-25749 on CTRL-OS 24.05

Packages: vim, vim-full

Status: In Progress

CVE Information

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.2132, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file resolution logic when processing the 'helpfile' option. The vulnerability is located in the get_tagfname() function in src/tag.c. When processing help file tags, Vim copies the user-controlled 'helpfile' option value into a fixed-size heap buffer of MAXPATHL + 1 bytes (typically 4097 bytes) using an unsafe STRCPY() operation without any bounds checking. This issue has been patched in version 9.1.2132.

Updates

2026-03-27 23:52 CET

Metadata changes:

  • Status for package vim: “In Progress”
  • Status for package vim-full: “In Progress”

2026-03-27 23:51 CET

Metadata changes:

  • Status: In Progress

2026-03-27 22:41 CET

Metadata changes:

  • Status: New