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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-027a373c31 moderate: vim input validation

fedora
Calendar Grey March 6, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Recent patch for vim resolves a security issue in Fedora tagged as CVE-2025-27423 and enhances system performance.
The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2025-27423

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-2025-27423

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora security fix update information input validation vim

Change Log

* Tue Mar 4 2025 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.1169-1 - patchlevel 1169

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2349561 - CVE-2025-27423 vim: Improper Input Validation in Vim https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2349561

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-027a373c31' 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 41
Version: 9.1.1169
Release: 1.fc41
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora security fix update information input validation vim

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