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Fedora 35: 2021-58ab85548d Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow Fixes

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian 11 Patch for nano resolves severe vulnerabilities in memory management and promotes improved performance.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2021-3927 Security fix for CVE-2021-3928

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 fix for CVE-2021-3927 Security fix for

CVE-2021-3928

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

- patchlevel 3582

[ 1 ] 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

[ 2 ] 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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-58ab85548d' 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 35
Version: 8.2.3582
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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