Fedora 39: vim 2023-1976197889
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:
Security fix for CVE-2023-5535, CVE-2023-5441 ---- patchlevel 1984 ---- The newest upstream commit
Change Log
* Wed Oct 18 2023 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2242141 - CVE-2023-5344 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in trunc_string() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242141 [ 2 ] Bug #2242926 - CVE-2023-5441 vim: NULL pointer dereference in screen_line() in src/screen.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242926 [ 3 ] Bug #2244101 - CVE-2023-5535 vim: use after free https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244101
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-1976197889' 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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