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SUSE: vim Moderate Path Traversal Issues and More 2025:03299-1

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
This notice outlines a significant security patch for nano tackling several vulnerabilities, including directory traversal flaws and others.
* bsc#1246602 * bsc#1246604 * bsc#1247938 * bsc#1247939

Summary

## This update for vim fixes the following issues: Updated to 9.1.1629: \- CVE-2025-53905: Fixed malicious tar archive may causing a path traversal in Vim’s tar.vim plugin (bsc#1246604) \- CVE-2025-53906: Fixed malicious zip archive may causing a path traversal in Vim’s zip (bsc#1246602) \- CVE-2025-55157: Fixed use-after-free in internal tuple reference management (bsc#1247938) \- CVE-2025-55158: Fixed double-free in internal typed value (typval_T) management (bsc#1247939) ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE double-free vim path traversal

References

* bsc#1246602

* bsc#1246604

* bsc#1247938

* bsc#1247939

Cross-

* CVE-2025-53905

* CVE-2025-53906

* CVE-2025-55157

* CVE-2025-55158

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-53905 ( SUSE ): 1.8

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-53905 ( SUSE ): 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-53905 ( NVD ): 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-53906 ( SUSE ): 1.8

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L

* CVE-2025-53906 ( SUSE ): 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-53906 ( NVD ): 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

* CVE-2025-55157 ( SUSE ): 6.7

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03299-1
Release Date: 2025-09-23T09:02:42Z
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SuSE double-free vim path traversal

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