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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 37.



SECURITY: Fedora 37 Update: vim-9.0.1407-1.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-d4ebe53978
2023-03-20 01:37:13.603409
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 9.0.1407
Release : 1.fc37
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-2023-1175, CVE-2023-1170,
CVE-2023-1264.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Mar 16 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1407-1
- patchlevel 1407
* Tue Mar 14 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1403-1
- patchlevel 1403
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2176413 - CVE-2023-1264 vim: NULL pointer dereference issue in utfc_ptr2len
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176413
[ 2 ] Bug #2176457 - CVE-2023-1175 vim: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176457
[ 3 ] Bug #2176462 - CVE-2023-1170 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176462
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d4ebe53978' 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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