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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: vim-8.2.4969-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-d20b51de9c
2022-05-19 01:16:26.286118
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 8.2.4969
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-2022-1674
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 17 2022 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:8.2.4969-1
- patchlevel 4969
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2085393 - CVE-2022-1674 vim: NULL pointer dereference in vim_regexec_string() of regexp.c
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2085393
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-d20b51de9c' 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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