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Mageia 9: 2024-0040 Moderate: Vim Buffer Overflow Resolved

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
New vim updates resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Mageia 9 as identified by CVE-2024-22667. Find additional details.
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Vim before 9.0.2142 has a stack-based buffer overflow because did_set_langmap in map.c calls sprintf to write to the error buffer...

Summary

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: Vim before 9.0.2142 has a stack-based buffer overflow because did_set_langmap in map.c calls sprintf to write to the error buffer that is passed down to the option callback functions. (CVE-2024-22667)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32850

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UIQLVUSYHDN3644K6EFDI7PRZOTIKXM3/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22667

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/vim-9.1.111-1.mga9

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Publication date: 17 Feb 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0040.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-22667

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