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Fedora 43 vim Critical CVE-2026-26269 Stack Overflow Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security advisory for Fedora 43 vim addresses CVE-2026-26269 buffer overflow vulnerability.
Security fix for CVE-2026-26269

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:

Security fix for CVE-2026-26269

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Tue Feb 24 2026 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.2.045-1 - patchlevel 045

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2439755 - CVE-2026-26269 vim: Netbeans specialKeys stack buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439755

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-120874f63c' 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 43
Version: 9.2.045
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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