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ALPINE-CVE-2025-24014

ALPINE-CVE-2025-24014 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.22vim7.2.284-r0, 7.2.394-r0, 7.2.394-r1
Alpine:v3.23vim0, 7.3.364-r0, 7.3.401-r0
Alpine:v3.21vim7.2.284-r0, 7.2.394-r0, 7.2.394-r1

Timeline

  • Jan 20, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
  • Jun 15, 2026 CVE Updated
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