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Slackware 15.0: 2022-261-01 Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2022
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent vim updates are now accessible for Slackware 15.0, addressing a critical security vulnerability related to heap overflow exploitation.
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-9.0.0500-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed heap-based buffer overflow. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3234 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.0.0500-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.

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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: 2efa206a5f9037288a6dae263635a877 vim-9.0.0500-i586-1_slack15.0.txz 704433332a5cd29b1d8c70e7d6c4b2af vim-gvim-9.0.0500-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: 1027b5bbc17d768cfab9be8766d6dd1e vim-9.0.0500-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz df6681778959263d69f99f2c26f9d5ac vim-gvim-9.0.0500-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 0e6fe32cbe7f8755e7bc2abe03284fa4 ap/vim-9.0.0500-i586-1.txz ebcab3ca12832ebc1eb6320e446ac15a xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0500-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: e1fa8afc5b1c749093a390514467f09c ap/vim-9.0.0500-x86_64-1.txz c30e7ee28421d30ca8914fc50a3373f7 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.0500-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-9.0.0500-i586-1_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-9.0.0500-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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