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Fedora 41: vim 2025-7b21a14892 Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security advisory for Fedora 41 addressing data loss risk in vim due to CVE-2025-29768. Urgent patch available.
patchlevel 1202 Security fix for CVE-2025-29768

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:

patchlevel 1202 Security fix for CVE-2025-29768

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix data loss vim threat information

Change Log

* Fri Mar 14 2025 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.1202-1 - patchlevel 1202 * Fri Mar 7 2025 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.1.1179-1 - patchlevel 1179

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2352418 - CVE-2025-29768 vim: Vim vulnerable to potential data loss with zip.vim and special crafted zip files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352418

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-7b21a14892' 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: 9.1.1202
Release: 1.fc41
URL: http://www.vim.org/
Summary: The VIM editor

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix data loss vim threat information

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