CVE-2026-8997

Description

vifm is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow during the history merge process when saving the state file (vifminfo.json). This flaw occurs because the application lacks a runtime check on the length of history entries in release builds, potentially allowing a crafted long path or command in the history to cause memory corruption or application crashes. Releases from 0.12.1 to 0.14.3 (including) are considered vulnerable. This issue was fixed in commit 23063c7

References

https://github.com/vifm/vifm/commit/23063c741f15a85621fd232dfc3ac5b779f6910d

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/05/CVE-2026-8997

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

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