RHSA-2024:9405LowCVSS 5.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Published
November 12, 2024
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-3903 →

📋 Description

CVE-2021-3903 — vim: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

🎯 Affected products68

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-X11-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-common-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-common-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • vim-debuginfo-2:8.2.2637-21.el9.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Do not run untrusted vim scripts with -s {scriptin} as it is never safe to do so.

🔗 References (5)