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CVE-2026-28421
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-02-27T22:16:25.493 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:28:35.523

Summary

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Versions prior to 9.2.0077 have a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault (SEGV) exist in Vim's swap file recovery logic. Both are caused by unvalidated fields read from crafted pointer blocks within a swap file. Version 9.2.0077 fixes the issue.

Affected products

vim — vim

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References

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