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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2025-3e178bb819 moderate: vim heap use after free

fedora
Calendar Grey February 24, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 23.04 implements a critical patch for nano fixing a buffer overflow vulnerability. Update promptly to maintain system security.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2025-26603

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 fix for CVE-2025-26603

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora Fedora security fix moderate severity vim CVE issue heap issue heap use after free commit update

Change Log

* Wed Feb 19 2025 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.1122-1 - patchlevel 1122

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2346610 - CVE-2025-26603 vim: heap-use-after-free in function str_to_reg in vim/vim [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346610

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-3e178bb819' 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: 9.1.1122
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora Fedora security fix moderate severity vim CVE issue heap issue heap use after free commit update

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