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Fedora 36 Security Update: Moderate vim Buffer Overflow Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey June 1, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Investigate key revisions for vim within Fedora 36, focusing on various security vulnerabilities that have been effectively resolved along with notable improvements and upgrades.
Security fixes for CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1927

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-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1927

* Tue May 31 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.5046-1

- patchlevel 5046

[ 1 ] Bug #2091676 - CVE-2022-1851 vim: out-of-bounds read in gchar_cursor() in misc1.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091676

[ 2 ] Bug #2091679 - CVE-2022-1898 vim: use-after-free in find_pattern_in_path() in search.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091679

[ 3 ] Bug #2091682 - CVE-2022-1897 vim: out-of-bounds write in vim_regsub_both() in regexp.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091682

[ 4 ] Bug #2091687 - CVE-2022-1927 vim: buffer over-read in utf_ptr2char() in mbyte.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091687

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-5ce148636b' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 36
Version: 8.2.5046
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: The VIM editor

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