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Fedora 34: 2022-b605768c94 Moderate: VIM Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Uncover the newest Fedora enhancement for VIM, highlighting vital security patches for urgent vulnerabilities impacting its user base.
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2022-1381, CVE-2022-1420

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 fixes for CVE-2022-1381, CVE-2022-1420

* Fri Apr 22 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4804-1

- patchlevel 4804

* Fri Apr 8 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4701-2

- fix the upstream testsuite failure due downstream patch

[ 1 ] Bug #2076170 - CVE-2022-1381 vim: global heap buffer overflow in skip_range

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2076170

[ 2 ] Bug #2077734 - CVE-2022-1420 vim: Out-of-range Pointer Offset

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077734

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-b605768c94' 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: 8.2.4804
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: The VIM editor

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