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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: vim-9.0.2048-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-6c84e57fab
2023-10-23 02:58:05.356492
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 9.0.2048
Release : 1.fc38
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 fix for CVE-2023-5535, CVE-2023-5441
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 18 2023 Zdenek Dohnal [zdohnal@redhat.com] - 2:9.0.2048-1
- patchlevel 2048
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2242926 - CVE-2023-5441 vim: NULL pointer dereference in screen_line() in src/screen.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242926
[ 2 ] Bug #2244101 - CVE-2023-5535 vim: use after free
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2244101
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-6c84e57fab' 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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