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Slackware 15.0 SSA:2023-297-02 High: Vim Use-After-Free Fix

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recently, updated vim packages have been released for Slackware 15.0 to address a potential security vulnerability efficiently.
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-9.0.2063-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed use-after-free security issue. Thanks to marav for the heads-up. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5535 (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.0.2063-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue 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 package for Slackware 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 packages: 110800073ef654710ff83915795b7e13 vim-9.0.2063-i586-1_slack15.0.txz f5929a37d1577dbdfd6890c20f34f1be vim-gvim-9.0.2063-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: f8ce49858efe1a4d22782d17e7511855 vim-9.0.2063-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz 0a9407c9ed59ccae9dad8cea6e183642 vim-gvim-9.0.2063-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: df0ee43cabbaf700a195c45a344b1d7d ap/vim-9.0.2063-i586-1.txz 4ec18c0c7a3c0df1cfb27824cf5cb76d xap/vim-gvim-9.0.2063-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: f008cbf104f16293800d7eea06b930f8 ap/vim-9.0.2063-x86_64-1.txz a60a96e120edd2c1f73b199ce030b835 xap/vim-gvim-9.0.2063-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue Slackware vim use-after-free

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg vim-9.0.2063-i586-1_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-9.0.2063-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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