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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2022-232-01 Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent vim updates made available for Slackware to address a significant vulnerability, providing an upgrade solution.
New vim packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-8.2.4649-i586-3_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt. Fix use after free. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2889 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-8.2.4649-i586-3_slack15.0.txz: Rebuilt.

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Topics Covered

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Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated packages for Slackware 15.0:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 packages: f7b3467de68dea55ae8a9a4420cd74ea vim-8.2.4649-i586-3_slack15.0.txz 6625d25878d1b8a30cdd787ee17cd3d8 vim-gvim-8.2.4649-i586-3_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: e7ad3a8084b118bac8c3621ae2f9bb3c vim-8.2.4649-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz bbf9c1ce6a4a75371c48f9967c2d973c vim-gvim-8.2.4649-x86_64-3_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: ac10d69e2c833298a1aa28a45a76a724 ap/vim-9.0.0231-i586-1.txz ec65424869557947a49963fab7ac86f9 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0231-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 6fd7396801226dda6f15114dd44fe7c9 ap/vim-9.0.0231-x86_64-1.txz 7b0585a9e2f65b12f1c0853ac56a297d xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0231-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-8.2.4649-i586-3_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-8.2.4649-i586-3_slack15.0.txz

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