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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: vim-8.2.4804-1.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-e304fffd34
2022-04-23 19:27:30.913742
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 8.2.4804
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:

The newest upstream commit Security fixes for CVE-2022-1381, CVE-2022-1420
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Apr 22 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4804-1
- patchlevel 4804
* Fri Apr 8 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4701-2
- fix the upstream testsuite failure due downstream patch
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2076170 - CVE-2022-1381 vim: global heap buffer overflow in skip_range
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2076170
[ 2 ] Bug #2077734 - CVE-2022-1420 vim: Out-of-range Pointer Offset
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077734
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-e304fffd34' 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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