CVE-2026-32249 (GCVE-0-2026-32249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-12 19:17 – Updated: 2026-03-13 16:16
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Title
NFA regex engine NULL pointer dereference affects Vim < 9.2.0137
Summary
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.0011 to before 9.2.0137, Vim's NFA regex compiler, when encountering a collection containing a combining character as the endpoint of a character range (e.g. [0-0\u05bb]), incorrectly emits the composing bytes of that character as separate NFA states. This corrupts the NFA postfix stack, resulting in NFA_START_COLL having a NULL out1 pointer. When nfa_max_width() subsequently traverses the compiled NFA to estimate match width for the look-behind assertion, it dereferences state->out1->out without a NULL check, causing a segmentation fault. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0137.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
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vim vim Affected: >= 9.1.0011, < 9.2.0137
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