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Fedora 35: 2022-74b9e404c1 Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow Report

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora 35 release enhances the vim editor by fixing severe vulnerabilities related to buffer overflow and heap memory exploitation.
Security fixes for CVE-2022-1769, CVE-2022-1733 ---- The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2022-1674

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-2022-1769, CVE-2022-1733 ---- The newest upstream

commit Security fix for CVE-2022-1674

* Wed May 18 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4975-1

- patchlevel 4975

* Tue May 17 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4969-1

- patchlevel 4969

[ 1 ] Bug #2085393 - CVE-2022-1674 vim: NULL pointer dereference in vim_regexec_string() of regexp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2085393

[ 2 ] Bug #2087594 - CVE-2022-1769 vim: a buffer over-read found in scriptfile.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2087594

[ 3 ] Bug #2087600 - CVE-2022-1733 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in cindent.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2087600

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-74b9e404c1' 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: 8.2.4975
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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