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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-e4bdc582f3 Critical: Nano Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora update fixes critical issues in Vim related to buffer overflow, ensuring enhanced stability and security.
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-1175, CVE-2023-1170, CVE-2023-1264.

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-2023-1175, CVE-2023-1170,

CVE-2023-1264.

* Thu Mar 16 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1407-1

- patchlevel 1407

* Tue Mar 14 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1403-1

- patchlevel 1403

[ 1 ] Bug #2176413 - CVE-2023-1264 vim: NULL pointer dereference issue in utfc_ptr2len

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176413

[ 2 ] Bug #2176457 - CVE-2023-1175 vim: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176457

[ 3 ] Bug #2176462 - CVE-2023-1170 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176462

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d4ebe53978' 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: 9.0.1407
Release: 1.fc37
Summary: The VIM editor

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