Ubuntu: USN-7261-1 (CVE-2025-24014): Vim vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7261-1 (CVE-2025-24014): Vim vulnerability

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

01/20/2025

Created

02/12/2025

Added

02/11/2025

Modified

02/11/2025

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.

Solution(s)

• ubuntu-upgrade-vim

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2025-24014
• CVE - 2025-24014
• USN-7261-1