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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-5f29c4709a Critical Fix for vim Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora update for Vim includes crucial security fixes and enhancements, ensuring users protect their systems against vulnerabilities.
- patchlevel 1872 ---- The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-4733, CVE-2023-4752, CVE-2023-4750

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 1872 ---- The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-4733, CVE-2023-4752, CVE-2023-4750

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information critical fix vim use-after-free

Change Log

* Tue Sep 5 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1872-1 - patchlevel 1872 * Wed Aug 30 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1822-1 - patchlevel 1822

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2237311 - CVE-2023-4752 vim: use-after-free in function ins_compl_get_exp in vim/vim https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237311 [ 2 ] Bug #2237314 - CVE-2023-4750 vim: use-after-free in function bt_quickfix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237314 [ 3 ] Bug #2237315 - CVE-2023-4733 vim: use-after-free in function buflist_altfpos https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237315

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5f29c4709a' 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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Name: vim
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 9.0.1872
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora update information critical fix vim use-after-free

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