CVE-2026-28418

Vim has Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Emacs tags parsing

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
Feb 27, 2026
Updated
Mar 2, 2026
Reserved
Feb 27, 2026

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Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0074, a heap-based buffer overflow out-of-bounds read exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file, Vim can be tricked into reading up to 7 bytes beyond the allocated memory boundary. Version 9.2.0074 fixes the issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
vimvim
  • < 9.2.0074Affected

References

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