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Fedora 36: Critical Heap Overflow Vulnerability in vim Detected

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 36 Security Update: vim resolves heap overflow vulnerability linked to CVE-2022-0943. Upgrade advised.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2022-0943

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-2022-0943

* Fri Mar 25 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4621-1

- patchlevel 4621

* Wed Mar 16 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4579-1

- patchlevel 4579

* Wed Mar 9 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4529-1

- patchlevel 4529

* Tue Mar 1 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4485-1

- patchlevel 4485

* Thu Feb 24 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4460-1

- patchlevel 4460

[ 1 ] Bug #2064064 - CVE-2022-0943 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow occurs in vim

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064064

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-b718ebbfce' 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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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 8.2.4621
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: The VIM editor

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