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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: vim-9.0.1262-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-340f1d6ab9
2023-02-03 01:39:02.227927
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 9.0.1262
Release : 1.fc36
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 fix for CVE-2023-0288
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 30 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1262-1
- patchlevel 1262
* Thu Jan 19 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1221-1
- patchlevel 1221
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2151559 - CVE-2022-4292 vim: use-after-free in did_set_spelllang() in src/spell.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151559
[ 2 ] Bug #2163131 - CVE-2023-0288 vim: a heap-based buffer overflow [fedora-36]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2163131
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-340f1d6ab9' 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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