USN-8171-1: Vim vulnerabilities

USN-8171-1: Vim vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Tue, 04/14/2026 - 04:01
Nathan Mills discovered that Vim could crash when parsing certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10 (CVE-2026-32249) It was discovered that Vim did not properly sanitize user input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2026-33412) Avishay Matayev discovered that Vim's modeline sandbox could be bypassed when opening a maliciously-crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2026-34982)

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