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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: vim-9.0.213-1.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-6f5e420e52
2022-08-23 14:45:12.575376
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 9.0.213
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:

patchlevel 213 Security fixes for CVE-2022-2819, CVE-2022-2816, CVE-2022-2817
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 15 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.213-1
- patchlevel 213
* Thu Aug 11 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.189-1
- patchlevel 189
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2118594 - CVE-2022-2819 vim: heap buffer overflow in compile_lock_unlock() at src/vim9cmds.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2118594
[ 2 ] Bug #2119042 - CVE-2022-2816 vim: out-of-bounds read in check_vim9_unlet() at src/vim9cmds.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119042
[ 3 ] Bug #2119043 - CVE-2022-2817 vim: heap use-after-free in string_quote() at src/strings.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119043
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-6f5e420e52' 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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