CVE-2025-24014Out-of-bounds Write in VIM

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 20
Latest updateOct 9

Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. A segmentation fault was found in Vim before 9.1.1043. In silent Ex mode (-s -e), Vim typically doesn't show a screen and just operates silently in batch mode. However, it is still possible to trigger the function that handles the scrolling of a gui version of Vim by feeding some binary characters to Vim. The function that handles the scrolling however may be triggering a redraw, which will access the ScreenLines pointer, even so this variable has

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 4.7

Affected Packages3 packages

NVDvim/vim< 9.1.1043
debiandebian/vim< vim 2:9.1.1113-1 (forky)
Debianvim/vim< 2:9.1.1113-1+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
OSV
CVE-2025-24014: Vim is an open source, command line text editor2025-01-20

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Vim vulnerabilities2025-10-09
Ubuntu
Vim vulnerability2025-04-01
Ubuntu
Vim vulnerability2025-02-10
Red Hat
vim: segmentation fault in win_line() in Vim < 9.1.10432025-01-20
Debian
CVE-2025-24014: vim - Vim is an open source, command line text editor. A segmentation fault was found ...2025
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