Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-5e87ad4678 Critical: Vim Double-Free Issue
fedora
August 9, 2024
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2024-41957, CVE-2024-41965
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-2024-41957, CVE-2024-41965
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon Aug 5 2024 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2302419 - CVE-2024-41965 vim: Double-Free Vulnerability in Vim Could Cause Application Crashes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302419
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-5e87ad4678' 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
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Name: vim
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 9.1.660
Release: 1.fc39
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor
Topics Covered
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