Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vim  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-VIM-15531439
  • published14 Mar 2026
  • disclosed27 Feb 2026

Introduced: 27 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-28421  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

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

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Versions prior to 9.2.0077 have a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault (SEGV) exist in Vim's swap file recovery logic. Both are caused by unvalidated fields read from crafted pointer blocks within a swap file. Version 9.2.0077 fixes the issue.