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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-5fa81a2b04 Moderate: VIM Buffer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey September 7, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
VIM update for Fedora 34 addresses heap buffer overflow. Install via dnf upgrade for security improvements.
The newest upstream commit

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

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

- patchlevel 3404

[ 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-2021-5fa81a2b04' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 8.2.3404
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: The VIM editor

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