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Fedora 35: 2022-a3d70b50f0 Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 36 enhances Bash with essential patches addressing memory leaks and probable unauthorized access risks.
Security fix for CVE-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4186

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-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4186

* Wed Jan 5 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4006-1

- patchlevel 4006

* Wed Dec 15 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3811-1

- patchlevel 3811

[ 1 ] Bug #2034720 - CVE-2021-4136 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in eval_lambda() in src/eval.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034720

[ 2 ] Bug #2035928 - CVE-2021-4166 vim: out-of-bounds read in do_arg_all() in src/arglist.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035928

[ 3 ] Bug #2035930 - CVE-2021-4173 vim: use-after-free with nested :def function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035930

[ 4 ] Bug #2036129 - CVE-2021-4187 vim: use-after-free vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036129

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-a3d70b50f0' 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: 8.2.4006
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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