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Medium ELSA-2025-17715 2 CVEs

Moderate: vim security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Oct 9, 2025 · Updated Oct 9, 2025

Summary

[8.0.1763-21.0.1]
- Remove upstream references [Orabug: 31197557]
- Added glibc-gconv-extra to common requires to provide ISO-8859-2 [Orabug: 34114984]

[2:8.0.1763-21]
- RHEL-112003 CVE-2025-53905 vim: Vim path traversial
- RHEL-112007 CVE-2025-53906 vim: Vim path traversal

[2:8.0.1763-20]
- fix issue reported by covscan

[2:8.0.1763-20]
- CVE-2022-1785 vim: Out-of-bounds Write
- CVE-2022-1897 vim: out-of-bounds write in vim_regsub_both() in regexp.c
- CVE-2022-1927 vim: buffer over-read in utf_ptr2char() in mbyte.c

[2:8.0.1763-20]
- CVE-2022-1621 vim: heap buffer overflow
- CVE-2022-1629 vim: buffer over-read

[2:8.0.1763-20]
- CVE-2022-1154 vim: use after free in utf_ptr2char

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-common 2:8.0.1763-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-enhanced 2:8.0.1763-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-filesystem 2:8.0.1763-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-minimal 2:8.0.1763-21.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-X11 2:8.0.1763-21.0.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 4.1

    Vim has path traversial issue with tar.vim and special crafted tar files

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1552, a path traversal issue in Vim’s tar.vim plugin can allow overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted tar archives. Impact is low because this exploit requires direct…

  • Medium 4.1

    Vim has path traversal issue with zip.vim and special crafted zip archives

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.1551, a path traversal issue in Vim’s zip.vim plugin can allow overwriting of arbitrary files when opening specially crafted zip archives. Impact is low because this exploit requires direct…