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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-055adf8e6f Moderate: Vim Heap Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey September 12, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Stay informed regarding the recent security patch for Fedora 39, which resolves various critical vulnerabilities in vim, with comprehensive patchlevel information included.
Security fix for CVE-2024-45306 patchlevel 703 Security fixes for CVE-2024-43374, CVE-2024-43802

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-2024-45306 patchlevel 703 Security fixes for CVE-2024-43374, CVE-2024-43802

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora security fix moderate severity heap overflow vim use after free

Change Log

* Fri Sep 6 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.719-1 - patchlevel 719 * Fri Aug 30 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.703-1 - patchlevel 703

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2305311 - CVE-2024-43374 vim: use-after-free in alist_add() in src/arglist.c [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2305311 [ 2 ] Bug #2308490 - CVE-2024-43802 vim: Heap Buffer Overflow in Vim's Typeahead Buffer Handling [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2308490 [ 3 ] Bug #2309343 - CVE-2024-45306 vim: heap-buffer-overflow in Vim [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2309343

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-055adf8e6f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

Name: vim
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 9.1.719
Release: 1.fc39
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora security fix moderate severity heap overflow vim use after free

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