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

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

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-52859
Published : June 11, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 19 minutes ago
Description :Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0565, the update_snapshot() 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 when it encounters a NUL terminator. When a cell legitimately fills all VTERM_MAX_CHARS_PER_CELL (6) slots — a base character plus five combining marks — the bundled libvterm returns the array without a terminating NUL, so the loop reads past the fixed six-element array and appends the out-of-bounds values to a buffer reserved for only six characters. A program whose output is rendered inside a :terminal window can trigger this with a short byte sequence and no Vim scripting, leading to a crash. This issue has been patched in version 9.2.0565.
Severity: 6.9 | MEDIUM
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