{"schemaVersion":3,"id":"USN-8101-1","aliases":[],"status":"published","duplicateOf":null,"title":null,"description":"vim vulnerabilities\n\nRahul Hoysala discovered that Vim did not correctly handle certain tag\nresolutions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial\nof service. (CVE-2026-25749)\n\nIt was discovered that Vim did not correctly handle processing certain\nspecialKey commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a\ndenial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-26269)\n\nKim Dong Han discovered that Vim did not correctly handle opening certain\nURLs. If a user or system were tricked into opening a specially crafted\nfile, an attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.\n(CVE-2026-28417)\n\nKim Dong Han discovered that Vim did not correctly handle parsing\nEmacs-style tag files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause\na denial of service. (CVE-2026-28418, CVE-2026-28419)\n\nKim Dong Han discovered that Vim did not correctly handle processing\nmaximum combining characters from Unicode supplementary planes. An attacker\ncould possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,\nUbuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10.\n(CVE-2026-28420)\n\nKim Dong Han discovered that Vim did not correctly handle swap file\nrecovery. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of\nservice or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-28421)\n\nKim Dong Han discovered that Vim did not correctly handle rendering\nstatus lines. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial\nof service or execute arbitrary code. 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