RHSA-2026:68711 — Security Advisory

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.

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.