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Oracle Linux 8 : vim (ELSA-2025-17715)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 269953

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-17715 advisory.

 - RHEL-112003 CVE-2025-53905 vim: Vim path traversial
 - RHEL-112007 CVE-2025-53906 vim: Vim path traversal
 - CVE-2022-1785 vim: Out-of-bounds Write
 - CVE-2022-1897 vim: out-of-bounds write in vim_regsub_both() in regexp.c
 - CVE-2022-1927 vim: buffer over-read in utf_ptr2char() in mbyte.c
 - CVE-2022-1621 vim: heap buffer overflow
 - CVE-2022-1629 vim: buffer over-read

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-17715.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 269953

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2025-17715.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2025

Updated: 10/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-53906

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.1

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:10:baseos_patch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:vim-minimal, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:vim-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:vim-filesystem, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:vim-enhanced, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:vim-x11

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-53905, CVE-2025-53906