UBUNTU-CVE-2026-32249 (CVE-2026-32249)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-03-12 20:16 – Updated: 2026-04-16 09:13 – Source website
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Details

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
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.1.0011 to before 9.2.0137, Vim\u0027s 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-\u003eout1-\u003eout without a NULL check, causing a segmentation fault. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.2.0137.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-32249",
  "modified": "2026-04-16T09:13:13Z",
  "published": "2026-03-12T20:16:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-32249"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-32249"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-9phh-423r-778r"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8171-1"
    }
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  "related": [
    "USN-8171-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-32249"
  ]
}



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