CVE-2025-24014

Public on 2025-01-20
Modified on 2025-01-22
Description
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. A segmentation fault was found in Vim before 9.1.1043. In silent Ex mode (-s -e), Vim typically doesn't show a screen and just operates silently in batch mode. However, it is still possible to trigger the function that handles the scrolling of a gui version of Vim by feeding some binary characters to Vim. The function that handles the scrolling however may be triggering a redraw, which will access the ScreenLines pointer, even so this variable hasn't been allocated (since there is no screen). This vulnerability is fixed in 9.1.1043.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.2
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
HAQM Linux 1 vim No Fix Planned
HAQM Linux 2 - Core vim 2025-02-12 ALAS2-2025-2753 Fixed
HAQM Linux 2023 vim 2025-04-09 ALAS2023-2025-932 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
HAQM Linux CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L