UBUNTU-CVE-2026-25749 (CVE-2026-25749)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-02-06 23:15 – Updated: 2026-03-19 05:26 – Source website
VLAI
Details

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.

Severity

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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.2132, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim\u0027s tag file resolution logic when processing the \u0027helpfile\u0027 option. The vulnerability is located in the get_tagfname() function in src/tag.c. When processing help file tags, Vim copies the user-controlled \u0027helpfile\u0027 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-25749",
  "modified": "2026-03-19T05:26:33Z",
  "published": "2026-02-06T23:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-25749"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25749"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-5w93-4g67-mm43"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.1.2132"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8101-1"
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  "related": [
    "USN-8101-1"
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  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-25749"
  ]
}



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