diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.2.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.2.bb
index 60946a1..709b6dd 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.2.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_8.2.bb
@@ -8,3 +8,8 @@
 ALTERNATIVE_${PN}_append = " xxd"
 ALTERNATIVE_TARGET[xxd] = "${bindir}/xxd"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[xxd] = "${bindir}/xxd"
+
+# We override the default in security_flags.inc because vim (not vim-tiny!) will abort
+# in many places for _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.  Security flags become part of CC.
+#
+lcl_maybe_fortify = "${@oe.utils.conditional('DEBUG_BUILD','1','','-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1',d)}"