USN-8451-1 vim vulnerabilities

Srinivas Piskala Ganesh Babu discovered that Vim incorrectly handled directory names when serializing browsed paths to the netrw history file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2026-47162 It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled step-definition pattern...

Vim < 9.2.0565 Out-of-Bounds Read (GHSA-47gw-8gc3-mgcm)

The version of Vim installed on the remote host is prior to 9.2.0565. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the GHSA-47gw-8gc3-mgcm advisory. - The updatesnapshot function in src/terminal.c copies the visible terminal screen into the scrollback buffer when a snapshot is...

Vim: Out-of-bounds Read in Terminal Screen Snapshot

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CVE-2026-52859

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0565, the updatesnapshot function in src/terminal.c copies the visible terminal screen into the scrollback buffer when a snapshot is taken. For each screen cell it walks the cell's chars array with no upper bound, stopping only...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-52859

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0565, the updatesnapshot function in src/terminal.c copies the visible terminal screen into the scrollback buffer when a snapshot is taken. For each screen cell it walks the cell's chars array with no upper bound, stopping only...

CVE-2026-52859

CVE-2026-52859 : Vim contains an out-of-bounds read in update_snapshot() (src/terminal.c) when taking a terminal snapshot. For cells that fill all 6 slots, libvterm can omit a terminating NUL, causing the loop to read past the six-element chars[] and append extra data to the scrollback buffer. Af...

CVE-2026-52859 Vim: Out-of-bounds Read in Terminal Screen Snapshot

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0565, the updatesnapshot function in src/terminal.c copies the visible terminal screen into the scrollback buffer when a snapshot is taken. For each screen cell it walks the cell's chars array with no upper bound, stopping only...

PT-2026-48722

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Vim versions prior to 9.2.0565 Description The update snapshot function in src/terminal.c copies the visible terminal screen into the scrollback buffer during a snapshot. The process involves iterating through the chars array of each screen ce...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-52859

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0565, the updatesnapshot function in src/terminal.c copies the visible terminal screen int...