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Fedora 38 FEDORA-2023-b695d3e2a8 Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Explore the recent Fedora release for nano, targeting a significant stack overflow vulnerability to improve overall safety.
patchlevel 1984

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update Fedora vim

Change Log

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

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-b695d3e2a8' 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: 9.0.1984
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update Fedora vim

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