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Slackware 15.0: 2022-242-01 Critical: Vim Use After Free Issue

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Exciting updates for Vim packages in Slackware 15.0 released to tackle urgent security vulnerabilities proficiently.
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-9.0.0334-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use after free. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3016 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.0.0334-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical slackware vim use after free

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: d84ff2197cb8ca546a8894308dcbb680 vim-9.0.0334-i586-1_slack15.0.txz 5385e7472c43d0791e75a377c3174717 vim-gvim-9.0.0334-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: 4a841af6a42f71e6de89a0c0ffe73c81 vim-9.0.0334-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz 54f8dc1acf06813fe95ff6fe8cd77136 vim-gvim-9.0.0334-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 9140a246f4686fc7bed7c3cf5327a96d ap/vim-9.0.0334-i586-1.txz 60f730aa8df0c8fe961c45c7f1fcf103 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0334-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 4c1a1af62534c9daa2ca0129294ef110 ap/vim-9.0.0334-x86_64-1.txz d7acf5317e2722c6e75455538adb23ef xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0334-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical slackware vim use after free

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-9.0.0334-i586-1_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-9.0.0334-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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