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Medium ELSA-2025-17742 2 CVEs

Moderate: vim security update (Oracle Linux 9)

Published Oct 13, 2025 · Updated Oct 13, 2025

Summary

[8.2.2637-22.0.1.1]
- Remove upstream references [Orabug: 31197557]

[2:8.2.2637-22.1]
- RHEL-112006 CVE-2025-53905 vim: Vim path traversial
- RHEL-112010 CVE-2025-53906 vim: Vim path traversal

[2:8.2.2637-22]
- RHEL-2159 vim: Heap Use After Free in function ins_compl_get_exp in vim/vim

[2:8.2.2637-21]
- RHEL-40602 CVE-2021-3903 vim: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 9 vim-common 2:8.2.2637-22.0.1.el9_6.1
Oracle Linux · 9 vim-enhanced 2:8.2.2637-22.0.1.el9_6.1
Oracle Linux · 9 vim-filesystem 2:8.2.2637-22.0.1.el9_6.1
Oracle Linux · 9 vim-minimal 2:8.2.2637-22.0.1.el9_6.1
Oracle Linux · 9 vim-X11 2:8.2.2637-22.0.1.el9_6.1

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…