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Fedora 29: Security Advisory for Vim - Command Execution Concern

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 29 has issued a security notice about a VIM text editor vulnerability that allows command execution, raising risks in untrusted environments.
1717503 - Security issue: patch 8.1.1365: source command doesn't check for the sandbox

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.

1717503 - Security issue: patch 8.1.1365: source command doesn't check for the

sandbox

* Thu Jun 6 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1471-1

- patchlevel 1471

* Tue May 28 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1413-1

- patchlevel 1413

* Mon May 20 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1359-2

- stop updating f28

* Mon May 20 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1359-1

- patchlevel 1359

* Mon May 20 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1137-2

- remove upstream patch

* Mon Apr 8 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1137-1

- patchlevel 1137

* Mon Apr 8 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1099-2

- 1697104 - new spec file template contains deprecated tags

* Tue Apr 2 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1099-1

- patchlevel 1099

* Tue Mar 26 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1048-2

- add bundled libvterm

* Mon Mar 25 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.1048-1

- patchlevel 1048

* Fri Mar 8 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.998-1

- patchlevel 998

* Fri Mar 8 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.994-2

- F30 is already active in bodhi

* Mon Mar 4 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.994-1

- patchlevel 994

* Wed Feb 20 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.956-1

- patchlevel 956

* Wed Feb 20 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.918-2

- we have Fedora 30 branch now, enable updates for it in vim-update.sh

* Thu Feb 14 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.918-1

- patchlevel 918

* Thu Feb 14 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.897-2

- we do not need exact include path for python3 now

* Tue Feb 12 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.897-1

- patchlevel 897

* Fri Feb 8 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.880-1

- patchlevel 880

* Mon Feb 4 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.873-1

- patchlevel 873

* Mon Feb 4 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.847-4

- remove downstream fix for new ruby, upstream solved it different way

* Sun Feb 3 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:8.1.847-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Jan 31 2019 Karsten Hopp - 2:8.1.847-2

- remove ancient Changelog.rpm

* Wed Jan 30 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.847-2

- fix patch for new ruby-2.6

* Wed Jan 30 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.847-1

- patchlevel 847

* Tue Jan 29 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.837-2

- FTBFS with new ruby-2.6

* Mon Jan 28 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.837-1

- patchlevel 837

* Fri Jan 25 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.818-1

- patchlevel 818

* Tue Jan 22 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.789-1

- patchlevel 789

* Fri Jan 11 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.714-1

- patchlevel 714

* Tue Jan 8 2019 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.702-1

- patchlevel 702

* Mon Dec 10 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.575-1

- patchlevel 575

* Wed Dec 5 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.549-2

- do not strip binaries before build system strips it

* Tue Nov 27 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.549-1

- patchlevel 549

* Tue Nov 27 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.527-2

- update vim-update.sh - F27 EOL

* Fri Nov 16 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.527-1

- patchlevel 527

* Thu Nov 8 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.513-2

- #1646183 - do not forget the epoch

* Thu Nov 8 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.513-1

- patchlevel 513

* Thu Nov 8 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.511-2

- fix #1646183 properly - we need to conflict with vim-enhanced, not vim-common

* Mon Nov 5 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.511-1

- patchlevel 511

* Mon Nov 5 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.497-2

- 1646183 - Man file conflict for vim-minimal and vim-enhanced

* Fri Oct 26 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.497-1

- patchlevel 497

* Fri Oct 19 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.483-1

- patchlevel 483

* Fri Oct 19 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.451-2

- 1640972 - vimrc/virc should reflect correct augroup

* Fri Oct 5 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.1.451-1

- patchlevel 451

[ 1 ] Bug #1717942 - vim/neovim: arbitrary code execution vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717942

[ 2 ] Bug #1718308 - CVE-2019-12735 vim/neovim: arbitrary command execution in getchar.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1718308

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-dcd49378b8' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 8.1.1471
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: The VIM editor

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