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Rocky Linux 9 RLSA-2026-8260 vim Critical Service Outage Threat

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2026
Rockylinux Esm H88
Rocky Linux 9 updates vim to fix important issues including arbitrary code execution and denial of service threats.
Important: vim security update

Summary

An update is available for vim. This update affects Rocky Linux 9. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important information disclosure vim rocky linux

RPMs

vim-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.src.rpm

vim-common-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.aarch64.rpm

vim-common-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.ppc64le.rpm

vim-common-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.s390x.rpm

vim-common-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.x86_64.rpm

vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.aarch64.rpm

vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.ppc64le.rpm

vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.s390x.rpm

vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.x86_64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.aarch64.rpm

vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.ppc64le.rpm

vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.s390x.rpm

vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.x86_64.rpm

vim-debugsource-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.aarch64.rpm

vim-debugsource-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.ppc64le.rpm

vim-debugsource-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.s390x.rpm

vim-debugsource-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.x86_64.rpm

vim-enhanced-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.aarch64.rpm

vim-enhanced-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.ppc64le.rpm

vim-enhanced-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.s390x.rpm

vim-enhanced-2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.2.x86_64.rpm

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References

No references

CVES

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-28417

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-28421

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-33412

Severity
important

Name: RLSA-2026:8259
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 9

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443455

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443474

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2450907


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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS important information disclosure vim rocky linux

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