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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-fe5420ed3f Moderate: vim Double-Free Risk

fedora
Calendar Grey August 8, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Key highlights for Fedora 40: vim vulnerabilities patched to mitigate potential crashing issues in recent releases.
The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2024-41965, CVE-2024-41957

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-2024-41965, CVE-2024-41957

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update security fix double-free vim editor CWE-415

Change Log

* Mon Aug 5 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.660-1 - patchlevel 660 * Fri Jul 26 2024 Benjamin Gilbert - 2:9.1.571-3 - Require gdk-pixbuf2-modules-extra on F41+ -X11 for XPM loading (rhbz#2277751) * Sat Jul 20 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:9.1.571-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild

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-fe5420ed3f' 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 40
Version: 9.1.660
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update security fix double-free vim editor CWE-415

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