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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: vim-8.2.3582-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-cfadac570a
2021-11-18 01:57:22.428392
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 8.2.3582
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   http://www.vim.org/
Summary : The VIM editor
Description :
VIM (VIsual editor iMproved) is an updated and improved version of the
vi editor. Vi was the first real screen-based editor for UNIX, and is
still very popular. VIM improves on vi by adding new features:
multiple windows, multi-level undo, block highlighting and more.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2021-3927 and CVE-2021-3928
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 8 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3582-1
- patchlevel 3582
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2021290 - CVE-2021-3927 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in gchar_cursor() in misc1.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021290
[ 2 ] Bug #2021292 - CVE-2021-3928 vim: stack-based buffer overflow in spell_iswordp() in spell.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021292
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-cfadac570a' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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