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A vim security update has been released for Fedora Linux 39.



[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: vim-9.0.2048-1.fc39


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-1976197889
2023-11-03 18:20:20.955902
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 39
Version : 9.0.2048
Release : 1.fc39
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 ---- patchlevel 1984 ---- The
newest upstream commit
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 18 2023 Zdenek Dohnal [zdohnal@redhat.com] - 2:9.0.2048-1
- patchlevel 2048
* Thu Oct 5 2023 Remi Collet [remi@remirepo.net] - 2:9.0.1984-2
- rebuild for new libsodium
* Thu Oct 5 2023 Zdenek Dohnal [zdohnal@redhat.com] - 2:9.0.1984-1
- patchlevel 1984
* Mon Oct 2 2023 Zdenek Dohnal [zdohnal@redhat.com] - 2:9.0.1968-1
- patchlevel 1968
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2242141 - CVE-2023-5344 vim: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in trunc_string()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242141
[ 2 ] 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
[ 3 ] 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-2023-1976197889' 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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