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Fedora 43 vim Important Command Injection Risk FEDORA-2026-a05ac070cd

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential update for Fedora 43 vim that tackles command injection vulnerability found in glob() ensuring improved security for users
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

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-a05ac070cd' 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: 9.2.240
Release: 1.fc43
Summary: The VIM editor

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