Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim-common  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-VIMCOMMON-12202525
  • published26 Aug 2025
  • disclosed24 Aug 2025

Introduced: 24 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-9390  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vim-common package and not the vim-common package as distributed by Centos.

A security flaw has been discovered in vim up to 9.1.1615. Affected by this vulnerability is the function main of the file src/xxd/xxd.c of the component xxd. The manipulation results in buffer overflow. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited. Upgrading to version 9.1.1616 addresses this issue. The patch is identified as eeef7c77436a78cd27047b0f5fa6925d56de3cb0. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.