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Slackware 15.0: 2023-004-01 Critical: Vim Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
The latest vim updates for Slackware 15.0 tackle critical vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and unauthorized memory access. Ensure your system is secure—update today!
New vim packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/vim-9.0.1146-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed security issues: Out-of-bounds Read in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1143. Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository vim/vim prior to 9.0.1144. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0049 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0051 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.0.1146-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Slackware vim out-of-bounds read

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: dffb0b4933c0f2a5775bb5418fa529f3 vim-9.0.1146-i586-1_slack15.0.txz fe55b89e85bf28ddaad4eb4a185e6261 vim-gvim-9.0.1146-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: f545d845f84e2cf7b9e70d4e24399232 vim-9.0.1146-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz 0b393321a630706fd5d55afb457965bd vim-gvim-9.0.1146-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 390be0c7c06db5dda1105a7e76eb9c99 ap/vim-9.0.1146-i586-1.txz 6e4b2a6636fb59b018fe472b79fdcd9a xap/vim-gvim-9.0.1146-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: fb75bd8b22364f5565dc71bce414df2e ap/vim-9.0.1146-x86_64-1.txz 7fea640f68b015ff284c819b2b6584c2 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.1146-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical Slackware vim out-of-bounds read

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-9.0.1146-i586-1_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-9.0.1146-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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