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Vim has a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault
CVE-2026-28421
First seen on SecPulse
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2026-28421 vim Fixed in: 9.2.0078-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28421 vim
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-28421 vim Fixed in: 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm23
Original description The description as published by the source.
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Versions prior to 9.2.0077 have a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault (SEGV) exist in Vim's swap file recovery logic. Both are caused by unvalidated fields read from crafted pointer blocks within a swap file. Version 9.2.0077 fixes the issue.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com
- web openwall.com
- web github.com