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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-a5e55a9e02 Critical: vim Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update for Fedora 33's vim addresses the critical CVE-2021-3903 vulnerability related to buffer overflow successfully.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2021-3903

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.

The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2021-3903

* Mon Nov 1 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3568-1

- patchlevel 3568

[ 1 ] Bug #2018558 - CVE-2021-3903 vim: heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018558

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-a5e55a9e02' 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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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 8.2.3568
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: The VIM editor

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