# CVE-2026-28419: Vim has Heap-based Buffer Underflow in Emacs tags parsing

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 9.2.0075
- Published: 2026-02-27 · Updated: 2026-03-02

## Affected

- vim: fixed in 9.2.0075

## Description

Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0075, a heap-based buffer underflow exists in Vim's Emacs-style tags file parsing logic. When processing a malformed tags file where a delimiter appears at the start of a line, Vim attempts to read memory immediately preceding the allocated buffer. Version 9.2.0075 fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vim, upgrade to a fixed version (9.2.0075) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-xcc8-r6c5-hvwv
- https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/9b7dfa2948c9e1e5e32a5812
- https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0075

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