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Fedora 37: Critical Update FEDORA-2023-99d2eaac80 on Vim Issues

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security patch for vim on Fedora 37 released, targeting numerous severe vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and additional issues.
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-2426, CVE-2023-2609, CVE-2023-2610

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-2023-2426, CVE-2023-2609,

CVE-2023-2610

* Thu May 18 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1562-1

- patchlevel 1562

* Thu Apr 27 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1491-1

- patchlevel 1491

[ 1 ] Bug #2209048 - CVE-2023-2610 vim: integer overflow vulnerability in vim

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209048

[ 2 ] Bug #2209050 - CVE-2023-2609 vim: NULL Pointer Dereference in get_register() at register.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209050

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-99d2eaac80' 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: 9.0.1562
Release: 1.fc37
Summary: The VIM editor

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