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Fedora 36 VIM: 2023-340f1d6ab9 Critical: Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey February 3, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patch for VIM on Fedora 36 tackles CVE-2023-0288. Ensure your system's safety—update immediately!
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2023-0288

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-2023-0288

* Mon Jan 30 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1262-1

- patchlevel 1262

* Thu Jan 19 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1221-1

- patchlevel 1221

[ 1 ] Bug #2151559 - CVE-2022-4292 vim: use-after-free in did_set_spelllang() in src/spell.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151559

[ 2 ] Bug #2163131 - CVE-2023-0288 vim: a heap-based buffer overflow [fedora-36]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163131

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-340f1d6ab9' 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 36
Version: 9.0.1262
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: The VIM editor

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