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Fedora 37: 2023-2db4df65c3 Critical Update for vim Text Formatting Issues

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important safety patches for vim in Fedora 37 tackle severe vulnerabilities. Update immediately for improved defense against threats.
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-0433, CVE-2022-47024

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 fixes for CVE-2023-0433, CVE-2022-47024

* Thu Feb 9 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1293-1

- patchlevel 1293

[ 1 ] Bug #2163612 - CVE-2023-0433 vim: reading past the end of a line when formatting text

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163612

[ 2 ] Bug #2163613 - CVE-2022-47024 vim: no check if the return value of XChangeGC() is NULL

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163613

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-2db4df65c3' 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 37
Version: 9.0.1293
Release: 1.fc37
Summary: The VIM editor

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