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Fedora 25: Security Update for Vim Affects Integer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2017
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Recent vim security patch for Fedora tackles integer overflow vulnerabilities that may affect memory allocation efficiency.
The newest upstream commit, CVE-2017-6350 vim: Integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site, CVE-2017-6349 vim: Integer overflow at a u_read_undo memory allocation...

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, CVE-2017-6350 vim: Integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site, CVE-2017-6349 vim: Integer overflow at a u_read_undo memory allocation site

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora integer overflow vim memory allocation

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1427944 - CVE-2017-6349 vim: Integer overflow at a u_read_undo memory allocation site https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427944 [ 2 ] Bug #1427945 - CVE-2017-6350 vim: Integer overflow at an unserialize_uep memory allocation site https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427945

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 25
Version: 8.0.386
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora integer overflow vim memory allocation

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