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Fedora 35: FEDORA-2022-f0db3943d9 Critical: vim Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential protection updates for vim in Fedora 35 address vital heap-buffer overflow vulnerabilities, enhancing the overall security and reliability.
patchlevel 4927 Security fixes for CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1619

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.

patchlevel 4927 Security fixes for CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1619

* Mon May 9 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4927-1

- patchlevel 4927

* Mon May 9 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4877-2

- add new file vimhelp.vim

* Fri May 6 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4877-1

- patchlevel 4877

* Mon May 2 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4857-1

- patchlevel 4857

[ 1 ] Bug #2083017 - CVE-2022-1616 vim: heap-buffer-overflow in append_command of src/ex_docmd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083017

[ 2 ] Bug #2083026 - CVE-2022-1619 vim: heap-buffer-overflow in cmdline_erase_chars of ex_getln.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083026

[ 3 ] Bug #2083029 - CVE-2022-1620 vim: NULL Pointer Dereference in vim_regexec_string() of regexp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2083029

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-f0db3943d9' 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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 35
Version: 8.2.4927
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: The VIM editor

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