Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-84f4cf3244 Critical Vim Buffer Overflow Threat

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.

The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2021-3778 Security fix for

CVE-2021-3796 Security fix for CVE-2021-3875 Security fix for CVE-2021-3872

* Fri Oct 15 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3512-1

- patchlevel 3512

* Thu Oct 14 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3404-2

- adjust test suite to Python 3.10

* Thu Oct 14 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3404-2

- remove filetype plugin from virc - it doesn't work with vi

* Mon Oct 11 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3404-2

- set system vimrc via compiler macros

* Thu Sep 23 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3404-2

- remove downstream patch vim-8.0-copypaste.patch - put mouse settings into defaults.vim again

[ 1 ] Bug #2004621 - CVE-2021-3778 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in utf_ptr2char() in mbyte.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004621

[ 2 ] Bug #2004728 - CVE-2021-3796 vim: use-after-free in nv_replace() in normal.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004728

[ 3 ] Bug #2014661 - CVE-2021-3875 vim: heap-based buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2014661

[ 4 ] Bug #2016056 - CVE-2021-3872 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in win_redr_status() drawscreen.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2016056

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-84f4cf3244' 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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