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Fedora 33 FEDORA-2021-4a43cbe0b4 Moderate vim Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey September 15, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian has issued a patch for nano that remedies CVE-2021-3771, which pertains to a possible memory leak vulnerability.
Security fix for CVE-2021-3770

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.

Security fix for CVE-2021-3770

* Mon Sep 6 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3404-1

- patchlevel 3404

* Wed Sep 1 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3391-1

- patchlevel 3391

[ 1 ] Bug #2001929 - CVE-2021-3770 vim: using retab with large value may lead to heap buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2001929

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-4a43cbe0b4' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 33
Version: 8.2.3404
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: The VIM editor

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