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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: vim-8.2.4068-1.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-20e66c6698
2022-01-14 01:25:48.084053
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 8.2.4068
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-2021-46059, CVE-2022-0158, CVE-2022-0156
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 12 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4068-1
- patchlevel 4068
* Mon Jan 10 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4051-1
- patchlevel 4051
* Fri Jan 7 2022 Malcolm Inglis - 2:8.2.4006-2
- add 'gui' build condition for vim-X11
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2039843 - CVE-2022-0156 vim: vulnerable to Use After Free
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039843
[ 2 ] Bug #2039846 - CVE-2022-0158 vim: vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039846
[ 3 ] Bug #2039850 - CVE-2021-46059 vim: NULL pointer dereference vulnerability via the vim_regexec_multi function at regexp.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039850
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-20e66c6698' 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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