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A vim security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: vim-9.0.1562-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-d6baa1d93e
2023-05-20 01:47:22.201589
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 9.0.1562
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:

The newest upstream commit Security fix for CVE-2023-2426
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 18 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1562-1
- patchlevel 1562
* Thu Apr 27 2023 Zdenek Dohnal - 2:9.0.1491-1
- patchlevel 1491
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2196584 - CVE-2023-2426 vim: out-of-range Pointer offset in mb_charlen() of mbyte.c [fedora-38]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196584
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-d6baa1d93e' 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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