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Fedora 35: 2022-9cef12c14c Critical: vim Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey February 16, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important update for vim in Fedora 35 addresses possible buffer overflow security issues.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2022-0572

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-2022-0572

* Tue Feb 15 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4386-1

- patchlevel 4386

[ 1 ] Bug #2054278 - CVE-2022-0572 vim: heap overflow in ex_retab() may lead to crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2054278

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-9cef12c14c' 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: 8.2.4386
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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