CVE-2025-24014

A flaw was found in Vim. In silent Ex mode (-s -e), Vim typically doesn't show a screen and operates silently in batch mode, however, it is possible to trigger the function that handles the scrolling of a GUI version of Vim via binary characters. The function that handles the scrolling may trigger a redraw, which will access the ScreenLines pointer and can cause a segmentation fault condition. This may lead to an application crash or other undefined behavior.

In order to trigger this issue, a local user must intentionally and explicitly feed some binary data to Vim in ex mode. Thus, Red Hat considers the impact Low.

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