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High ELSA-2026-48703 4 CVEs

Important: vim security update (Oracle Linux 8)

Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026

Ecosystem: Oracle Linux

Summary

[8.0.1763-31.0.1]
- Remove upstream references [Orabug: 31197557]
- Added glibc-gconv-extra to common requires to provide ISO-8859-2 [Orabug: 34114984]

[2:8.0.1763-31]
- RHEL-203873 CVE-2026-59858 vim: arbitrary Ex command execution in
C omni-completion

[2:8.0.1763-30]
- RHEL-194055 CVE-2026-55693 vim: out-of-bounds write in
tree_count_words()

[2:8.0.1763-29]
- RHEL-191365 CVE-2026-57455 vim: Out-of-bounds write with soundfold()

[2:8.0.1763-28]
- RHEL-192102 CVE-2026-57456 vim: possible code execution with python
complete via crafted docstrings

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-common 2:8.0.1763-31.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-enhanced 2:8.0.1763-31.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-filesystem 2:8.0.1763-31.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-minimal 2:8.0.1763-31.0.1.el8_10
Oracle Linux · 8 vim-X11 2:8.0.1763-31.0.1.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 4

  • High 8.4
    CVE-2026-57456

    Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via Python Omni-Completion Docstrings

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0699, Vim's Python omni-completion (runtime/autoload/python3complete.vim and the legacy pythoncomplete.vim) executes reconstructed function and class definitions from the current buffer with exec()…

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  • High 8.4
    CVE-2026-59858

    Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via C Omni-Completion

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0735, the C omni-completion script in runtime/autoload/ccomplete.vim interpolates the typeref: or typename: extension field of a tags entry, without escaping, into a :vimgrep pattern that is run th…

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  • Medium 5.7
    CVE-2026-55693

    Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0653, the tree_count_words() function in src/spellfile.c fills in the word-count fields of a spell-file word trie by walking it iteratively with a depth counter. The counter is bounded only by the …

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  • Medium 4.0
    CVE-2026-57455

    Vim: Stack out-of-bounds write in `spell_soundfold_sofo()` via an over-length `soundfold()` argument

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0698, the single-byte branch of spell_soundfold_sofo() in src/spell.c translates a word through a spell file's SOFO (sound-folding) byte map into a caller-owned result buffer. Its copy loop advance…

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