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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: vim-9.0.246-1.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-3b33d04743
2022-09-01 09:54:30.910493
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 9.0.246
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 fixes for CVE-2022-2946, CVE-2022-2923, CVE-2022-2845, CVE-2022-2889
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 23 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.246-1
- patchlevel 246
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2119844 - CVE-2022-2845 vim: Buffer Under-read
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119844
[ 2 ] Bug #2119864 - CVE-2022-2889 vim: use-after-free in find_var_also_in_script() in evalvars.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2119864
[ 3 ] Bug #2120989 - CVE-2022-2923 vim: null pointer dereference in function sug_filltree
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120989
[ 4 ] Bug #2120993 - CVE-2022-2946 vim: use after free in function vim_vsnprintf_typval
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2120993
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-3b33d04743' 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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