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.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-932 advisory.

    A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in vim up to 9.1.1096. This vulnerability affects     unknown code of the file src/main.c. The manipulation of the argument --log leads to memory corruption. It     is possible to launch the attack on the local host. Upgrading to version 9.1.1097 is able to address this     issue. The patch is identified as c5654b84480822817bb7b69ebc97c174c91185e9. It is recommended to upgrade     the affected component. (CVE-2025-1215)

    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. (CVE-2025-24014)

    Vim is a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. Vim allows to redirect screen messages     using the `:redir` ex command to register, variables and files. It also allows to show the contents of     registers using the `:registers` or `:display` ex command. When redirecting the output of `:display` to a     register, Vim will free the register content before storing the new content in the register. Now when     redirecting the `:display` command to a register that is being displayed, Vim will free the content while     shortly afterwards trying to access it, which leads to a use-after-free. Vim pre 9.1.1115 checks in the     ex_display() function, that it does not try to redirect to a register while displaying this register at     the same time. However this check is not complete, and so Vim does not check the `+` and `*` registers     (which typically donate the X11/clipboard registers, and when a clipboard connection is not possible will     fall back to use register 0 instead. In Patch 9.1.1115 Vim will therefore skip outputting to register zero     when trying to redirect to the clipboard registers `*` or `+`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no     known workarounds for this vulnerability. (CVE-2025-26603)

    Vim, a text editor, is vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files in     versions prior to 9.1.1198. The impact is medium because a user must be made to view such an archive with     Vim and then press 'x' on such a strange filename. The issue has been fixed as of Vim patch v9.1.1198.
    (CVE-2025-29768)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the vim packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    When switching to other buffers using the :all command and visual mode still being active, this may cause     a heap-buffer overflow, because Vim does not properly end visual mode and therefore may try to access     beyond the end of a line in a buffer. In Patch 9.1.1003 Vim will correctly reset the visual mode before     opening other windows and buffers and therefore fix this bug. In addition it does verify that it won't try     to access a position if the position is greater than the corresponding buffer line. Impact is medium since     the user must have switched on visual mode when executing the :all ex command. The Vim project would like     to thank github user gandalf4a for reporting this issue. (CVE-2025-22134)

    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). (CVE-2025-24014)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS vim security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2025-24014)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0723-1 advisory.

    Update to version 9.1.1101:

    - CVE-2024-43790: possible out-of-bounds read when performing a search command (bsc#1229685).
    - CVE-2024-43802: heap buffer overflow due to incorrect flushing of the typeahead buffer (bsc#1229822).
    - CVE-2024-45306: heap buffer overflow when cursor position is invalid (bsc#1230078).
    - CVE-2025-22134: heap buffer overflow when switching to other buffers using the :all command with active     visual mode       (bsc#1235695).
    - CVE-2025-24014: NULL pointer dereference may lead to segmentation fault when in silent Ex mode     (bsc#1236151).
    - CVE-2025-1215: memory corruption when manipulating the --log argument (bsc#1237137).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0722-1 advisory.

    Update to version 9.1.1101:

    - CVE-2024-43790: possible out-of-bounds read when performing a search command (bsc#1229685).
    - CVE-2024-43802: heap buffer overflow due to incorrect flushing of the typeahead buffer (bsc#1229822).
    - CVE-2024-45306: heap buffer overflow when cursor position is invalid (bsc#1230078).
    - CVE-2025-22134: heap buffer overflow when switching to other buffers using the :all command with active     visual mode       (bsc#1235695).
    - CVE-2025-24014: NULL pointer dereference may lead to segmentation fault when in silent Ex mode     (bsc#1236151).
    - CVE-2025-1215: memory corruption when manipulating the --log argument (bsc#1237137).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2753 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2025-24014)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of vim installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-24014 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2025-24014)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-7261-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain internal calls when scrolling a window. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of vim installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-24014 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2025-24014)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234334	Amazon Linux 2023 : vim-common, vim-data, vim-default-editor (ALAS2023-2025-932)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
234162	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2025-1379)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
234153	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : vim (EulerOS-SA-2025-1380)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
231943	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-24014	Nessus	Misc.	medium
216901	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2025:0723-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
216882	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : vim (SUSE-SU-2025:0722-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	low
216797	Amazon Linux 2 : vim (ALAS-2025-2753)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
216085	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: vim (CVE-2025-24014)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	medium
215238	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.10 : Vim vulnerability (USN-7261-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
214796	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: vim (CVE-2025-24014)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
214538	Vim < 9.1.1043 Out-of-bounds Write	Nessus	Windows	medium

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