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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-b0ac29efb1 Critical: vim Memory Access Issues

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Calendar Grey December 15, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 34 introduces a security patch for vim, mitigating various vulnerabilities to strengthen system safety.
Security fix for CVE-2021-4069 ---- Security fixes for CVE-2021-3984, CVE-2021-4019 ---- 2026651 - defaults.vim changes create conflicts between vim-minimal and vim-common ---- Sec...

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-2021-4069 ---- Security fixes for CVE-2021-3984,

CVE-2021-4019 ---- 2026651 - defaults.vim changes create conflicts between

vim-minimal and vim-common ---- Security fix for CVE-2021-3968 Security fix

for CVE-2021-3973 Security fix for CVE-2021-3974 ---- Security fix for

CVE-2021-3927 and CVE-2021-3928 ---- The newest upstream commit Security fix

for CVE-2021-3903

* Tue Dec 7 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3755-1

- patchlevel 3755

* Thu Dec 2 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3717-1

- patchlevel 3717

* Thu Nov 25 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3642-2

- 2026651 - defaults.vim changes create conflicts between vim-minimal and vim-common

* Mon Nov 22 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3642-1

- patchlevel 3642

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

- patchlevel 3582

* 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

[ 2 ] 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

[ 3 ] 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

[ 4 ] Bug #2025056 - CVE-2021-3968 vim: Heap use-after-free in ml_append_int function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025056

[ 5 ] Bug #2025059 - CVE-2021-3973 vim: Heap based buffer overflow in findfile.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025059

[ 6 ] Bug #2025061 - CVE-2021-3974 vim: Use after free in regexp_nfa.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025061

[ 7 ] Bug #2028122 - CVE-2021-3984 vim: illegal memory access in find_start_brace() in cindent.c when C-indenting

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028122

[ 8 ] Bug #2028212 - CVE-2021-4019 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in find_help_tags() in help.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028212

[ 9 ] Bug #2029513 - CVE-2021-4069 vim: use-after-free in ex_open() in src/ex_docmd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2029513

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-b0ac29efb1' 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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Product: Fedora 34
Version: 8.2.3755
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: The VIM editor

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