Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-cfadac570a Critically Addresses vim Memory Issues

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-2021-3927 and CVE-2021-3928

* Mon Nov 8 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3582-1

- patchlevel 3582

[ 1 ] Bug #2021290 - CVE-2021-3927 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in gchar_cursor() in misc1.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021290

[ 2 ] Bug #2021292 - CVE-2021-3928 vim: stack-based buffer overflow in spell_iswordp() in spell.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021292

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-cfadac570a' 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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