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Fedora 34 FEDORA-2022-d94440bf0e Critical VIM Buffer Over-Read

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This revision targets essential VI security enhancements for Fedora 35, bolstering the editor's defense against potential vulnerabilities.
Security fixes for CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1927

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 fixes for CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1927

* Tue May 31 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.5046-1

- patchlevel 5046

[ 1 ] Bug #2091676 - CVE-2022-1851 vim: out-of-bounds read in gchar_cursor() in misc1.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091676

[ 2 ] Bug #2091679 - CVE-2022-1898 vim: use-after-free in find_pattern_in_path() in search.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091679

[ 3 ] Bug #2091682 - CVE-2022-1897 vim: out-of-bounds write in vim_regsub_both() in regexp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091682

[ 4 ] Bug #2091687 - CVE-2022-1927 vim: buffer over-read in utf_ptr2char() in mbyte.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091687

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-d94440bf0e' 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: 8.2.5046
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: The VIM editor

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