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Medium RHSA-2026:6540 4 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Published Apr 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 18

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-common 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-common-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-debugsource 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-enhanced 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-enhanced-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-minimal-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-X11 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::appstream vim-X11-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-common-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-debugsource 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-enhanced-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-filesystem 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-minimal 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-minimal-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2
Red Hat · RHEL 9.4 EUS rhel_eus:9.4::baseos vim-X11-debuginfo 2:8.2.2637-20.el9_4.2

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437843
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443455
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443474
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2450907
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_6540.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25749
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25749
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25749
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0714b15940b245108e6e9d7aa2260dd849a26fa9
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.1.2132
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-5w93-4g67-mm43
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28417
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28417
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28417
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/79348dbbc09332130f4c860
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0073
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-m3xh-9434-g336
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28421
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28421
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28421
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/65c1a143c331c886dc28
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0077
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-r2gw-2x48-jj5p
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-33412
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33412
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33412
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/645ed6597d1ea896c712cd7ddbb6edee79577e9a
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.2.0202
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-w5jw-f54h-x46c