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Fedora 34 FEDORA-2022-8df66cdbef Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Fedora patch addresses significant vulnerabilities in nano related to memory management. Protect your environment immediately!
patchlevel 4927 Security fixes for CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1629

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.

patchlevel 4927 Security fixes for CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1619,

CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1629

* Mon May 9 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4927-1

- patchlevel 4927

* Mon May 9 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4877-2

- add new file vimhelp.vim

* Fri May 6 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4877-1

- patchlevel 4877

* Mon May 2 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4857-1

- patchlevel 4857

* Fri Apr 29 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4845-1

- patchlevel 4845

[ 1 ] Bug #2083017 - CVE-2022-1616 vim: heap-buffer-overflow in append_command of src/ex_docmd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083017

[ 2 ] Bug #2083026 - CVE-2022-1619 vim: heap-buffer-overflow in cmdline_erase_chars of ex_getln.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083026

[ 3 ] Bug #2083029 - CVE-2022-1620 vim: NULL Pointer Dereference in vim_regexec_string() of regexp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083029

[ 4 ] Bug #2083924 - CVE-2022-1621 vim: heap buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083924

[ 5 ] Bug #2083931 - CVE-2022-1629 vim: buffer over-read

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083931

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-8df66cdbef' 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 34
Version: 8.2.4927
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: The VIM editor

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