RHSA-2026:68711 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for vim is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Vim (Vi IMproved) is an updated and improved version of the vi editor.

Security Fix(es):

• vim: arbitrary command execution via modeline sandbox bypass (CVE-2026-34982)
• vim: zip.vim: Vim zip.vim plugin: Arbitrary file overwrite via path traversal bypass (CVE-2026-35177)
• vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files (CVE-2026-41411)
• vim: command injection when decompressing .tgz archives (CVE-2026-46483)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted directory names (CVE-2026-47162)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via Python omni-completion (CVE-2026-52858)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via crafted step-definition patterns (CVE-2026-47167)
• vim: Vim: Denial of Service via stack out-of-bounds write in spell_soundfold_sofo() (CVE-2026-57455)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via malicious docstrings in Python omni-completion (CVE-2026-57456)
• vim: Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count (CVE-2026-55693)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary command execution via crafted tags file in C omni-completion (CVE-2026-59858)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary command execution via crafted vimball (CVE-2026-73076)
• vim: Vim: Heap buffer overflow allows arbitrary code execution (CVE-2026-73072)
• vim: Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via Crafted Netrw Menu Entries (CVE-2026-73078)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2455400 - CVE-2026-34982 vim: arbitrary command execution via modeline sandbox bypass
• BZ - 2455542 - CVE-2026-35177 vim: zip.vim: Vim zip.vim plugin: Arbitrary file overwrite via path traversal bypass
• BZ - 2461614 - CVE-2026-41411 vim: Vim: Command injection allows arbitrary code execution via malicious tag files
• BZ - 2477915 - CVE-2026-46483 vim: command injection when decompressing .tgz archives
• BZ - 2487964 - CVE-2026-47162 vim: Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via crafted directory names
• BZ - 2487981 - CVE-2026-52858 vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via Python omni-completion
• BZ - 2487996 - CVE-2026-47167 vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via crafted step-definition patterns
• BZ - 2492968 - CVE-2026-57455 vim: Vim: Denial of Service via stack out-of-bounds write in spell_soundfold_sofo()
• BZ - 2492972 - CVE-2026-57456 vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via malicious docstrings in Python omni-completion
• BZ - 2492980 - CVE-2026-55693 vim: Vim: Out-of-bounds Write in Spell File Word Count
• BZ - 2498868 - CVE-2026-59858 vim: Vim: Arbitrary command execution via crafted tags file in C omni-completion
• BZ - 2514034 - CVE-2026-73076 vim: Vim: Arbitrary command execution via crafted vimball
• BZ - 2514037 - CVE-2026-73072 vim: Vim: Heap buffer overflow allows arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 2514058 - CVE-2026-73078 vim: Vim: Arbitrary Code Execution via Crafted Netrw Menu Entries

CVEs

• CVE-2026-34982
• CVE-2026-35177
• CVE-2026-41411
• CVE-2026-46483
• CVE-2026-47162
• CVE-2026-47167
• CVE-2026-52858
• CVE-2026-55693
• CVE-2026-57455
• CVE-2026-57456
• CVE-2026-59858
• CVE-2026-73072
• CVE-2026-73076
• CVE-2026-73078

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important