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Fedora 42: Vim Critical Path Traversal Fix Advisory 2025-9395406660

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security updates for Vim in Fedora 42 have been implemented to tackle path traversal vulnerabilities CVE-2025-53906 and CVE-2025-53905.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical vim path traversal

Change Log

* Wed Jul 16 2025 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.1552-1 - patchlevel 1552

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-2025-9395406660' 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 42
Version: 9.1.1552
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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security advisory fedora update critical vim path traversal

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