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Fedora 35 FEDORA-2022-8622ebdebb moderate: VIM buffer overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey February 22, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora enhances nano to tackle vulnerabilities, including a critical buffer overflow flaw affecting the text editor.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2022-0629

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-2022-0629

* Mon Feb 21 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4428-1

- patchlevel 4428

[ 1 ] Bug #2055695 - CVE-2022-0629 vim: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in vim prior to 8.2.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2055695

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-8622ebdebb' 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 35
Version: 8.2.4428
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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