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Fedora 24: 2017-9b2cf468d5 Moderate: Vim Spell File Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey February 27, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 enhances nano to mitigate a vital text editing vulnerability, safeguarding user data and maintaining system reliability.
The newest upstream commit, fixing CVE-2017-5953 vim: Tree length values not validated properly when handling a spell file

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:

The newest upstream commit, fixing CVE-2017-5953 vim: Tree length values not validated properly when handling a spell file

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora moderate severity vim modification spell file

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1421613 - CVE-2017-5953 vim: Tree length values not validated properly when handling a spell file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421613

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade vim' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: vim
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 8.0.324
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora moderate severity vim modification spell file

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