CVE-2025-24014

Publication date 20 January 2025

Last updated 9 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vim	25.10 questing	Fixed 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu4
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2:9.1.0967-1ubuntu4
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 2:9.1.0496-1ubuntu6.4
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:9.1.0016-1ubuntu7.7
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:8.2.3995-1ubuntu2.23
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:8.1.2269-1ubuntu5.31
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1.13+esm13
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm28
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3.1+esm22

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7261-1
Vim vulnerability
10 February 2025

USN-7261-2
Vim vulnerability
1 April 2025

USN-7815-1
Vim vulnerabilities
9 October 2025