Buffer Underwrite (Buffer Underflow) Affecting vim/vim package, versions [,9.2.0075)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIMVIM-15364897
  • published28 Feb 2026
  • disclosed28 Feb 2026
  • creditKim Dong Han

Introduced: 28 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-28419  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-124  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade vim/vim to version 9.2.0075 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Underwrite (Buffer Underflow) in the Emacs-style tags file parsing process. An attacker can cause memory to be read from outside the bounds of the allocated buffer by supplying a specially crafted tags file where a delimiter appears at the start of a line.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1