Fedora 41 Advisory: VIM Critical Path Traversal CVEs 2025-53905, 53906
fedora
July 18, 2025
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2025-53906, CVE-2025-53905
Summary
VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the
vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is
still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features:
multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more.
Update Information:
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2025-53906, CVE-2025-53905
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Wed Jul 16 2025 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2380360 - CVE-2025-53906 vim: Vim path traversal
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2380360
[ 2 ] Bug #2380362 - CVE-2025-53905 vim: Vim path traversial
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2380362
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-cc42339ef7' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: vim
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 9.1.1552
Release: 1.fc41
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor
Topics Covered
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