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Message-ID: <ac5RDjzlzUnuJd0H@256bit.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 13:20:46 +0200
From: Christian Brabandt <cb@...bit.org>
To: Tianyu Chen <sweetyfish@...pin.org>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [vim-security] Vim tabpanel modeline escape
 affects Vim < 9.2.0272


Tianyu Chen schrieb am Donnerstag, den 02. April 2026:

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 09:25:58AM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry for being potentially off-topic, but I am wondering if I am doing 
> > something wrong here. Did anybody request a CVE for this? I got a 
> > notification from Github Support (after 10 hours or so) that they cannot 
> > assign a CVE for this, as there was already one assigned.
> > 
> > I typically hit the *Request CVE* button before I publish an advisory 
> > and send out the notifications, and usually github assigns those pretty 
> > fast, but not this time.
> > 
> > Does anybody here know how this works? Or did I do something wrong?
> 
> Isn't it CVE-2026-34714? I saw it noted on
> https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-2gmj-rpqf-pxvh.

Yes, but Github did not assign it. Someone else did and GH did barely 
notify me of this already existing CVE.

Thanks,
Christian
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