Haelwenn /элвэн/ 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/971885 "app-editors/vim: Multiple High risk vulnerabilities in the past few days"
Pfahaha, makes me wonder if it's related to the vibe-code stuff it got in there lately.
sam@lanodan I don't use vim so not for me to do really, but I'm just waiting for someone to package one of these "boring forks".
From what I saw, at least some of these vulnerabilities (not sure if it's the ones in this bug but wrt the ones going around recently), they got introduced pretty recently and couldn't be repro'd on say Debian stable, so any fork would likely be okay if it's from a little while ago..
@thesamesam Well I don't use it either (I use app-editors/vis) so it's kind of me being on the peanut gallery, otherwise pretty sure I probably would have packaged one of those boring forks already.
@lanodan Had a feeling. I feel like editors are one of those where you need someone who actually daily drives it to be sensitive to the various things that can go wrong, tweaked upstream defaults, blah blah
mid_kid@thesamesam @lanodan I am a heavy user of vim, but have never poked much at its internals (or bothered learning vimscript) so I've yet to notice any of this ensloppification.
Looking around, it seems that too much of the software I rely on has started using AI overnight, making it unavoidable. Drew even has a blog post on replacing rsync with tar due to this, something I really don't see being anywhere near equivalent.
As someone who consistently fights losing fights, this doesn't seem worth it.
Looking around, it seems that too much of the software I rely on has started using AI overnight, making it unavoidable. Drew even has a blog post on replacing rsync with tar due to this, something I really don't see being anywhere near equivalent.
As someone who consistently fights losing fights, this doesn't seem worth it.
@mid_kid @lanodan I do think Vim has always been a bit of a rough situation at least since the huge numbers of CVEs started, because you'd end up being nudged to upgrade quickly and there'd be various regressions.
This just means there's more regressions. It's not uncommon to move more slowly with such upstreams or to stick to an older version.
For this reason, we have (for as long as I've paid any attention to packaging) not rushed to update Vim, often being behind by quite a bit, because of how much broke even pre-LLMs.
@thesamesam @lanodan Oh, I wasn't aware about vim patches being so wonky. I guess you guys've been doing a good job shielding me from it :P