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Slackware 15.0: 2022-252-01 Critical: Vim Null Pointer Threat

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Exciting updates have been released for Slackware 15.0 to address a critical memory issue involving null references, allowing for fast upgrade paths.
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-9.0.0417-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed null pointer dereference. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3153 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.0.0417-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update security fix slackware null pointer vim

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: e79c4f4fa020c2a8c915d64d34d82b55 vim-9.0.0417-i586-1_slack15.0.txz 5fe446aca81a47b6ba66edaf4d9f839c vim-gvim-9.0.0417-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: c30a8f1a1cf4910a7443ed671e3b5d41 vim-9.0.0417-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz 17ff67a8ed7fe213e2db3014c1d1738d vim-gvim-9.0.0417-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: c4611f9e69eb664633cb208889b1de68 ap/vim-9.0.0417-i586-1.txz 71abcd8276f3bcc4323bd82794d58795 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0417-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 5b1fe63734ccead50277ae2c5202e6d4 ap/vim-9.0.0417-x86_64-1.txz b70b5bb125f4ee106a8b962de940b106 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0417-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update security fix slackware null pointer vim

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-9.0.0417-i586-1_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-9.0.0417-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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