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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-9b2cf468d5
2017-02-27 17:43:32.845536
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Name : vim
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 8.0.324
Release : 1.fc24
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, fixing CVE-2017-5953 vim: Tree length values not
validated properly when handling a spell file
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1421613 - CVE-2017-5953 vim: Tree length values not validated properly when
handling a spell file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421613
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade vim' 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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