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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-c0da722865 Moderate: Vim Buffer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey October 13, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical patch for Emacs in Fedora 37 resolves a potential remote exploit. Safeguard your coding workspace now!
patchlevel 1984 ---- The newest upstream commit

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.

Update Information:

patchlevel 1984 ---- The newest upstream commit

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update Fedora vim

Change Log

* Thu Oct 5 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1984-1 - patchlevel 1984 * Mon Oct 2 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1968-1 - patchlevel 1968

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2242141 - CVE-2023-5344 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in trunc_string() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242141

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-c0da722865' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: vim
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 9.0.1984
Release: 1.fc37
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update Fedora vim

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