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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2023-3fbd936c76 critical: vim fix for Git issues

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 39 announces a new Vim patch addressing significant security vulnerabilities, specifically CVE-2023-48707 and CVE-2023-46248.
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2023-46246

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:

The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2023-48706, CVE-2023-46246

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Change Log

* Fri Dec 15 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.2167-1 - patchlevel 2167

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2246953 - CVE-2023-46246 vim: Integer Overflow in :history command https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246953 [ 2 ] Bug #2251118 - CVE-2023-48706 vim: use-after-free in ex_substitute in Vim https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251118

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-3fbd936b15' 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 39
Version: 9.0.2167
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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