Important: vim security update (Oracle Linux 7)

Summary

Fixed packages 5

Vulnerabilities 4

• Medium 6.6
  CVE-2026-25749

  Heap Overflow in Vim

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.2132, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file resolution logic when processing the 'helpfile' option. The vulnerability is located in the get_tagfname() function in sr…

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  Feb 6, 2026
• Medium 5.6
  CVE-2026-33412

  Vim affected by Command injection via newline in glob()

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0202, a command injection vulnerability exists in Vim's glob() function on Unix-like systems. By including a newline character (\n) in a pattern passed to glob(), an attacker may be able to…

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  Mar 24, 2026
• Medium 5.3
  CVE-2026-28421

  Vim has a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Versions prior to 9.2.0077 have a heap-buffer-overflow and a segmentation fault (SEGV) exist in Vim's swap file recovery logic. Both are caused by unvalidated fields read from crafted pointer blocks within a sw…

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  Feb 27, 2026
• Medium 4.4
  CVE-2026-28417

  Vim has OS Command Injection in netrw

  Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0073, an OS command injection vulnerability exists in the `netrw` standard plugin bundled with Vim. By inducing a user to open a crafted URL (e.g., using the `scp://` protocol handler), an …

  vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  Feb 27, 2026