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Slackware 15.0: Vim Critical Buffer Overflow Fix SSA:2025-361-01

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Calendar Grey December 27, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Critical security advisory for Slackware 15.0 to fix a buffer overflow in vim. Upgrade packages required for safety.
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-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: patch 9.1.2028: [security]: Buffer-overflow with incomplete multi-byte chars. (* Security fix *) patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical slackware security patch vim

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/vim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated packages for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/vim-9.1.2028-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/vim-gvim-9.1.2028-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated packages for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/vim-9.1.2028-i686-1.txz ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/xap/vim-gvim-9.1.2028-i686-1.txz
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MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 packages: 8be30f2044993a2579d72f6535769542 vim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz 10eb82ce630a0cf555d3b0b942c99ff2 vim-gvim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 packages: fe4784c2f144994a1d9c0501b9ab9dd7 vim-9.1.2028-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz 18029f89d5662c8277501356ce05d4c0 vim-gvim-9.1.2028-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current packages: 1b2168cf45a070a487a80c9114c2cf0f ap/vim-9.1.2028-i686-1.txz 3027a514a5d69847e809a8cb485c1f6d xap/vim-gvim-9.1.2028-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current packages: 4217ec77a742766cbeadb06c44fc3668 ap/vim-9.1.2028-x86_64-1.txz 8ba94082668c8d31a38ebc29181bf821 xap/vim-gvim-9.1.2028-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg vim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz vim-gvim-9.1.2028-i586-1_slack15.0.txz

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