Summary
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)
Fixed packages 7
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS | vim | 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.27 |
| Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS | vim | 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.11 |
| Ubuntu · 25.10 | vim | 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu6.2 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS | vim | 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm24 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS | vim | 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm30 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS | vim | 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm15 |
| Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS | vim | 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.32+esm3 |