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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: vim-8.2.4006-1.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-a3d70b50f0
2022-01-07 01:15:51.498774
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 8.2.4006
Release : 1.fc35
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-2021-4136, CVE-2021-4166, CVE-2021-4173, CVE-2021-4186
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 5 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4006-1
- patchlevel 4006
* Wed Dec 15 2021 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.3811-1
- patchlevel 3811
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2034720 - CVE-2021-4136 vim: heap-based buffer overflow in eval_lambda() in src/eval.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2034720
[ 2 ] Bug #2035928 - CVE-2021-4166 vim: out-of-bounds read in do_arg_all() in src/arglist.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035928
[ 3 ] Bug #2035930 - CVE-2021-4173 vim: use-after-free with nested :def function
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035930
[ 4 ] Bug #2036129 - CVE-2021-4187 vim: use-after-free vulnerability
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036129
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-a3d70b50f0' 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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