USN-5836-1: Vim vulnerabilities

31 January 2023

Several security issues were fixed in Vim.

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It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management
operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-47024, CVE-2023-0049,
CVE-2023-0054, CVE-2023-0288, CVE-2023-0433)

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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

USN-5963-1: vim-gui-common, vim-motif, vim-common, vim-gtk3, vim-athena-py2, vim-gnome-py2, vim-gtk, vim-gtk-py2, vim-runtime, xxd, vim-gtk3-py2, vim-nox-py2, vim-gnome, vim-tiny, vim-doc, vim-lesstif, vim-nox, vim, vim-athena

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