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Fedora 44 vim Important 2026-a218db2573 Command Injection Patchlevel 240

fedora
Calendar Grey March 30, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update for Fedora 44 vim addresses command injection issue with patchlevel 240, important security fix.
patchlevel 240

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:

patchlevel 240

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora arbitrary code execution important command injection vim

Change Log

* Wed Mar 25 2026 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.2.240-1 - patchlevel 240

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2450907 - CVE-2026-33412 vim: Vim: Arbitrary code execution via command injection in glob() function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2450907

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-a218db2573' 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 44
Version: 9.2.240
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora arbitrary code execution important command injection vim

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