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Fedora 35: 2022-20e66c6698 Critical: vim Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey January 13, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An update for Fedora 35's vim resolves several security issues, bolstering defenses against potential attacks.
Security fix for CVE-2021-46059, CVE-2022-0158, CVE-2022-0156

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-2021-46059, CVE-2022-0158, CVE-2022-0156

* Wed Jan 12 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4068-1

- patchlevel 4068

* Mon Jan 10 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4051-1

- patchlevel 4051

* Fri Jan 7 2022 Malcolm Inglis - 2:8.2.4006-2

- add 'gui' build condition for vim-X11

[ 1 ] Bug #2039843 - CVE-2022-0156 vim: vulnerable to Use After Free

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039843

[ 2 ] Bug #2039846 - CVE-2022-0158 vim: vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039846

[ 3 ] Bug #2039850 - CVE-2021-46059 vim: NULL pointer dereference vulnerability via the vim_regexec_multi function at regexp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039850

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-20e66c6698' 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 35
Version: 8.2.4068
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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